Re: Is the iBook2 really good?
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 02:28:46PM +0300, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote:
> On 18 Aug 2001 03:46:15 -0700, Russell Williams wrote:
> >
> > --- Michel Dänzer <michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch> wrote:
> > > Russell Williams wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Is the iBook2 really a good choice as an
> > > inexpensive Debian notebook?
> > >
> > > Most definitely.
>
> My "yeah" here also. The specs are pretty much like the older black
> powerbook G3 ("Pismo") anyway. The more memory you can stuff in the
> better, especially if you want to run MacOnLinux (www.maconlinux.net)
> since you want to give about 128Mb to MacOS if you intend to do anything
> useful with it (I run Illustrator on it, it works fine, but larger
> graphics could use 256MB for the macos session, thus I could use 512MB
> ram on this, currently it has 256 which is fine for just Linux use.
>
> > Would the TiBook be worth the extra money?
>
> There is quite a bit of that extra money in between an ibook and
> tibook..
>
> > > Do you absolutely need _Ximian_ GNOME? GNOME 1.4 is
> > > in the main Debian
> > > archive, and the Ximian debs tend to be worse
> > > integrated into the system.
> >
> > I don't need Ximian Gnome but I would prefer it. Can I
> > recompile it or will I have many problems with it?
>
> Yes. You just want to stick to debian/stable then, as debian/unstable
> and debian/testing are not supported by Ximian Gnome - It might work,
> but you *will* face conflicting packages that try to overwrite each
> others files, since debian/unstable and thus testing also are changing
> rapidly and the packages are organized differently.
>
> It should build out of the box from the source .debs though.
>
> deb-src http://red-carpet.ximian.com/debian stable main
>
> is my apt-line.
>
> > How long does it take to start Mozilla? (when running
> > GNOME 1.4)
>
> Mozilla works perfectly fine on my pismo, and it is slow to start even
> on my desktop machine. But one doesnt start and close it all the time
> anyway, I just keep it running all the time.
Also, i think there is a galeon comman line option to prestart galeon/mozilla,
and when you later want to open a galeon window, it appears immediately.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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