Re: Are the Mac G3 laptops viable now?
I can't speak for Debian, but LinuxPPC R4 and higher are quite useable. I run
it every day, at home and at the office on my PowerBook G3 Series. And now that
Mac-On-Linux is working, and Sheepshaver is in the works, you'll be able to have
the best of both worlds, run Linux and fire up MacOS whenever you need to.
I can use accelerated X at 1024 x 768, the modem works, etc. Sound doesn't work
very well, but I'm not really worried about that.
At this moment, you can't use Netscape with the glibc2.1 versions (LinuxPPC
pre-R5 and Yellowdog and Debian, I believe), so if you really need that you'll
have to use LinuxPPC 4.x.
I'd say go for it!
Hugh
Rob Browning wrote:
> >From the LinuxPPC page, it looks like they're working now, but it
> doesn't really say much else about it (like how well they're working).
>
> So I was wondering if any one here had any experience using one. I've
> got a friend who wants to get started with Linux, and seems like an
> excellent candidate to join Debian later, but she also needs a Mac
> laptop. I could probably talk her out of it if the G3's really don't
> work that well with Linux/Debian, but she'd be much better off right
> now if she could have one machine that did both MacOS and Linux.
>
> Thanks
>
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