My original Intel (i.e. 32 bit) Mac Mini running OS-X 10.4 is nippy enough. As Tiger is rapidly losing support (e.g. from Mozilla) and I'm too mean to upgrade to Snow Leopard, I thought I'd give Xubuntu 10.04 a try.
Not nippy. Agonisingly slow, in fact. I've no idea why, and hadn't the patience to find out. Instead I tried the full Ubuntu, which runs beautifully on my Inspiron laptop.
Disaster. Lucid installed as easily as expected, but failed to boot. After several minutes of futile disk spinning I pulled the power cable. Maybe their super-clever boot speedup techniques, which are a feature of this release, are confused by the Efi Mac innards.
As Xubuntu had run, albeit slowly, I decided to have one more try. Mandriva 2010 One was the final candidate. Installation was smooth, and - hooray!- it booted.
Nippier than Xubuntu, but not as fast as the older single core self-build AMD box I compared it to.
In conclusion, my Mac Mini will soon be on eBay, the proceeds going toward a new NetBook.
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