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I've just been playing with a live version and I do think I'm in love. Has anyone found any quirks/problems which are making them think twice about upgrading?

How weird... 10.74 down, 20.81 up

No memory stick from them but I get regular emails!

One of the new features announced for Calc in LibreOffice is that it now goes up to 1 million rows. New Features » LibreOffice

Toss a coin - it always works for me because if deep down I don't like the outcome of said toss it prompts me to go with my heart. Life is too short.

Nexus S, default browser - mobile version works great. One query though... If I read an interesting thread I can't find a way of subscribing to it and switching to full site mode takes me to the forums page so I need to find it again.

That's very cool and certainly more appreciated if you're not a fan of javascript etc. making your code less pure. For me the coke can demo looks the coolest.

I've probably missed something obvious but is there any particular reason why you're using 11.4? Maybe you'd have more success with 10.10 or 10.04?

Does anything in particular stand out to you? I've ummed and ahhed for a long time about migrating from my first gen BB Pearl to an Android phone but have been unwilling to lose the physical keyboard. I thought the Desire Z was the answer but I wasn't impressed with the mechanism when I was playing with one in a shop.

Thanks for all the advice - I appreciate the time you're taking to help me troubleshoot this annoying issue. When booted from the primary drive I can see the USB stick in the system profiler but it doesn't show up in the Disk Utility. When booted from the original restore DVD it doesn't show up in Disk Utility either. It's just in FAT32 because I use it on Mac/Linux/Windows machines and I can't reformat it because it doesn't show up in Disk Utility (although it works perfectly on Linux/Windows machines). I'm not using a hub. The KB does auto-mount on boot but if I unplug it then plug it back in it will not be recognised and I have to pull the plug to restart. I've also noticed that if I leave the USB stick in the back of the machine, it sometimes mounts on the desktop after a reboot but won't remount if it is pulled out. I tried using a USB stick I bought about four years ago. I plugged it in to the KB and it mounted fine. I then unplugged it and plugged it back in again with no issues. Unfortunately it's only 512KB instead of the shine new Kingston 4GB stick I'm having issues with. Is it possible that the old one is USB 1.1 or more backwardly compatible than the new one which is USB 2.0? I'll try this although I have tried it on the administrator account instead of my own to no avail. I did that but it came up with no issues. This is looking like my next option.

Thanks for the links. I downloaded both in turn and could get neither to work which probably means I'm doing something wrong. The Ubuntu failed to burn a couple of times before I realised it was 715MB and therefore over the CD limit and requiring burning to a DVD. I popped the disc in and rebooted while holding down 'option' until I got the screen for choosing a boot drive. The CD came up but when I tried to boot from it the screen just reloaded for each disc. I also tried rebooting and holding down 'C'. The Fedora disc thought about it for a few seconds then rebooted to the primary drive. For the Ubuntu disc I got a grey screen and the fans gradually came on. The fans kept getting louder and louder until I thought it was going to explode so I turned it off. Any other ideas gratefully received.

Thanks for the quick reply. I dug out the original OS install disk but I couldn't work out how to access Finder to test mounting a USB stick. I've also had a search around for a live distro to boot from and can't seem to find something that does what I think I should be doing (i.e. like a live 'buntu distro on a PC but customised for the PowerPC architecture). I downloaded a demo disk doctor but that wanted to be installed on my HD as opposed to being burnt to a bootable medium. Can you give me a few more clues?

My PowerPC G5, which I have loved for about five years now, is not behaving properly. When I plug in a FAT32 formatted USB memory stick (that works fine in Windows and Linux) it will not mount and show it on the desktop so I can access it. The stick shows up in the USB part of the System Profiler but not anywhere in Finder and not in Disk Utility. I've tried rebooting with the stick in and it still doesn't come up. I've tried resetting PRAM and SMU and PMU and SMT and BLT and anything else I've found reference to. I've noticed that after a restart the KB and mouse work fine but if I unplug the KB and plug it back in the devices will not be recognised. I've also noticed that if I plug an old stick in to the KB and restart, it is recognised. Another anomaly is that I can connect my camera via USB to download pictures. Even if I unmount it, it is recognised again upon reconnection. I've done lots of searching but to no avail so any help would be gratefully received.

Although ultimately you would run a specific server distro on the machine and have it tucked away headless somewhere I would recommend you initially work with a version with a GUI installed. It can be more forgiving and easier to get things set up. Both Ubuntu and Debian have live distros so you can check if they work on your machine before committing to installing. They also both have versions 'with' (aka normal) and 'without' (aka server) GUI's so you can experiment and get the system running how you want before creating your ultimate machine.

I know I'm late to the party but for next time consider CrunchBang Linx. It runs OpenBox window manager so is light on resource requirements and the last time I used it it was based on Ubuntu (although there was talk of switching to base it on Debian instead).

Do you know how far it gets? I had to change something in the bios settings for mine to boot headless. Once it's past that initial stage Ubuntu Server edition is designed to run headless so I don't understand why it would need a monitor.