[ale] Linux on an Apple iBook

[Dow Hurst]

Can you post us the price and still gloat? ;-)
Dow


Jason Vinson wrote:

>I have to attend an event at my church tomorrow evening, so I will be missing the ale meeting.  Hopefully i could see your (Jordi) setup at the next meeting.  I actually decided to go with the powerbook:
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>Titanium PowerBook G4 667MHz Combo (DVD/CD-RW) System Only
>667MHz PowerPC G4, 512MB SDRAM, 30GB Ultra ATA Drive, Slot Load
>Combo(DVD/CD-RW), 56K Modem, 15.2 Mega Wide Screen, Gigabit EtherneT, 2 USB, 1 FireWire, Mac OS X (Airport Included)
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>Sorry... i had to gloat  ;)
>Jason
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>-------Original Message-------
>From: tfreeman at intel.digichem.net
>Sent: 02/12/03 03:45 PM
>To: ale at ale.org
>Subject: Re: [ale] Linux on an Apple iBook
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>I dual booted an iBook (much slower) before OS X came out, using Yellow 
>Dog Linux. Except for trying to get my tiny mind wrapped around the boot 
>procedure, and a couple of maturity issues (sound for one), it ran well, 
>and presented no headaches. Ditto with SuSe, although the boot process for 
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>SuSe was different than Yellow Dog.
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>Since putting OS X 10.2 on that machine, I haven't messed with Linux on 
>Mac as it has been just much easier to boot OS X and be done with it. As 
>such, I'd be curious about your more recent experiences.
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>On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Jason Vinson wrote:
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>>Hi folks,
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>>     I have been convinced to try out the Apple iBook (800MHz, 256MB 
>>RAM) with gool ol' OSX, but i wanted to see how people like PPC linux 
>>distro's.  I'll most likely run with YDL, unless someone can convince me 
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>>otherwise.  Any comments/horror stories?
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>>TIA,
>>Jason
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