Re: Debian + The New PowerBook G4s
Matthew T. Atkinson wrote:
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This post is really aimed at the Debian PPC users. I was wondering if:
Writing to debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org would perhaps be better
appropriated than ;-)
* Debian (Sarge/Sid at the current time) works on this PowerBook (I'd be
going for the 15'' model).
yes, as far as I know it is working just fine.
* There are any known limitations with Debian on this Machine.
* What hardware does/doesn't work -- e.g. Gigabit Ethernet, Wireless
Ethernet, FireWire 800, Audio, Graphics (ATi Radeon 9700 Mobile).
Airport Extreme is not working (yet? - I heard that there were some
folks doing some reverse engineering, haven't got a clue how far they
have come thought...), that means you probably won't be able to get
wireless lan under linux on that machine. :( That is, as of now, the
only point keeping me of from buying myself an iBook, the lack of
support for 802.11g...
* Have there been any production issues like there were in the past
(blotch screens, loose catches)? I've not found mention of any so far
but I never owned a Mac and am not sure which are the best sites to look
at for information like this.
Once again, as far as I have heart, those production problems have been
sorted out.
Friendly,
Bob Hentges
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http://bob.hentges.lu/
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