Re: PowerBook 540c
Wow - I must be tired, sorry about the typos:
On Oct 25, 2004, at 09:43 PM, Rick Genter wrote:
I have a PowerBook 540c; I've had it since I bought it back in 1994
when they first came out. Recently I dug it out of my old hardware
closet and fired it up. It still works just fine, though the battery
won't hold a charge.
My observation is that Linux generally works better on slow hardware
than the "native" graphical OSes such as Windows or MacOS, so I
decided I wanted to try and put Linux on my PowerBook. After
investigation, though, it looks like Linux is currently not quite
there for my PowerBook:
- the 68K implementations don't support the 68LC040
- the Macintosh 68K implementations don't boot natively; you have to
through a MacOS-based bootloader, requiring a MacOS partition on the
hard drive
Obviously I meant that "you have to *go* through a MacOS-based
bootloader.
That being the case, and being a believe,
And here I mean "being a believer in the open source development model"
I'd like to volunteer to help make the PowerBook 540c a first-class
Linux citizen. My question: where would my efforts be best applied?
68LC040 support? Nativing booting? Somewhere else?
Thanks in advance.
Rick
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