On Jun 9, 2004, at 8:11 PM, Pedro Carneiro wrote:
Dear Hans-Christoph Steiner,
I use Debian/PPC on my PowerBook G4 800 and its quite a bit faster
than MacOS X.Re: Would Debian/PPC run ok on an ibook 500 with 192 ram? I am buying
a new laptop soon and could use this one for experiences :-)
Yes it should run well on that computer.
Currently, the only thing I really use Debian for on my PowerBook is for running my instrument:
Re: Are you on doubleboot with OS X then?
Yes, I installed MacOS X first, then GNU/Linux.
.hc
Re: cool!
It works very well for that, very reliable. While Debian is really great for those who dig into their OS, its not so friendly for
novices. It is definitely very user friendly, but only if that user is an experienced UNIX or GNU/Linux person.Re: Yes, I am definetly novice!
All best,
-pedro
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Re: Would Debian/PPC run ok on an ibook 500 with 192 ram? I am buying a new laptop soon and could use this one for experiences :-)
Yes it should run well on that computer.
you could also give a try to gentoo, it's running fine on a ibook with pd, pdp, pidip, gem (blablabla) and it has an "ok" documentation. the only problem i had so far was the audio acting weird sometimes (very low or way too high) but i didn't have time to check it deeply (it's not my ibook), anyway it's an alsa related problem and you may have the same with debian and this ibook model. Besides this, everything is well supported (concerning this ibook model), the only annoying thing i found was the mapping of the right and middle click to the keyboard, but well ... that's mac :)
+! aym3ric.
Aym3ric,
This is way off topic, but I tried a two-button USB mouse on a G4 once, and the right button worked in exactly the same way as 'apple-click'! I don't know if this 'hidden feature' works under PPC Linux, but it's worth a try...
Jamie
aym3ric wrote:
Besides this, everything is well supported (concerning this ibook model), the only annoying thing i found was the mapping of the right and middle click to the keyboard, but well ... that's mac :)
+! aym3ric.
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Aym3ric,
This is way off topic, but I tried a two-button USB mouse on a G4 once, and the right button worked in exactly the same way as 'apple-click'! I don't know if this 'hidden feature' works under PPC Linux, but it's worth a try...
Jamie
aym3ric wrote:
Besides this, everything is well supported (concerning this ibook model), the only annoying thing i found was the mapping of the right and middle click to the keyboard, but well ... that's mac :)
+! aym3ric.
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Aym3ric,
This is way off topic, but I tried a two-button USB mouse on a G4 once, and the right button worked in exactly the same way as 'apple-click'! I don't know if this 'hidden feature' works under PPC Linux, but it's worth a try...
Jamie
aym3ric wrote:
Besides this, everything is well supported (concerning this ibook model), the only annoying thing i found was the mapping of the right and middle click to the keyboard, but well ... that's mac :)
+! aym3ric.
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aym3ric stm-sq@bleu255.com writes:
(concerning this ibook model), the only annoying thing i found was the mapping of the right and middle click to the keyboard, but well ... that's mac :)
You could always get any 3-button mouse (USB) supported by linux and had a go with it. It should work fine with a right driver.
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