User:Raganius

Hello! I have read and watched movies about linux but I had little patience and will in the past to make system Linux work my way. At the moment I spend time using Ubuntu for daily PC tasks and I try to make it as much comfortable as I was with Windows, especially Windows 7. I spend 3 months with MacOs X Snow Leopad 10.6 on MacBook 13", and now I am trying to get the most of PowerBook G4 with 512Mb of RAM. I upgraded it with 10.5 Leopard from 10.2, but later I decided to try Ubuntu with Unity GUI. 10.04/10.10 didin't have Unity GUI, 11.04 was lagging, and there were problems with 11.10 installation, but 12.04 Precise Pangolin is working fine now - even there are 3 months left for official release (It shows it as 11.10 in system info). Unity GUI is really nice. I guess it is inspired by MacOs X nice graphics ant functionality of Windows - really a good blend, although feels like wind of changes for me :) . So I really freaking out with this G4, and I want to optimize it as much as possible. And as you know nothing comes close to Linux when you need customized OS. My problem is (hopefully you are still reading) Adobe Flash and Shockwave and Skype and Teamviewer for PowerPC Linux. My daily activities include watching internet TV, like CNBC, BBC, Thomson-Reuters, Bloomberg and of course YouTube and chatting with friends about interesting articles and with clients discussing business and supporting them with remote desktop software Teamviewer. My problem is that at the moment G4 is my main PC (long story what happened to others) and I am used to work with Windows, and all these apps work on windows fine, even on old P3 running one task at the time :) and all this software (Flash,Skype,Teamviewer) doesn't exist on PowerPC based MAC. Maybe I can use Qemu to run these apps? Maybe I can run x86 apps for Linux on my PPC G4 with the help of Qemu? I really like the quality of the screen and weight of this PowerBook G4. And I like Ubuntu Interface. Is it possible to combine things I like with what I have at the moment? Thank you for your opinions.

Raganius