Ubuntu Linux is styled as “Linux for Human Beings”, an appropriate description given its feel-good photography, earthy color schemes, and pseudo-primitive “heritage.” It all works quite well and bespeaks both the importance of unified design branding across all media and of keeping your targeting focused.

It’s also really cool.

Ubuntu on an iBook

Hoary

As of this writing, my experience with Ubuntu has been limited to research and familiarization — last year, however, I did experiment with Ubuntu (Hoary) on an iBook with more or less success. Read Ubuntu (Hoary) Linux on an iBook.

Dapper

Just this week (2006/08) I’ve begun my Dapper experiments which, although not exactly successful, is a good exercise: Attempting to install Ubuntu Dapper on an iBook.

More Ubuntu experiments

That experimental effort continues this year (2006) with plans to convert some PowerPC G4 towers (currently running Mac OS X) into a Linux desktop and a Linux server, using Dapper Drake. Assuming things work out well, which I imagine they will, I will continue later in the year to transition over to Linux for a great deal of my development.