On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 03:47:35PM -0600, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > So, lately, I've been drooling over the latest 15" powerbooks. I have > never owned or even really used a Mac, but when looking at laptop > choices, powerbooks look to be the best. I even had a dream about it > last night ... except in the dream, salesmen kept giving me the wrong > model, and I'd get home, open it up, realize it was the wrong one, and > have to repeat the process. Hopefully the actual purchase will be less > painful ...
Heh. I've just ordered one of these, which will probably become my new primary development machine. It's due to arrive in early November. > So, question for people who have used this architecture before: If I buy > a system from Apple, how hard would it be to reconfigure it for > dual-boot? Single-boot debian? What is the Mac way to resize/move > partitions? What does one use for a boot-loader? I know that OS X is > based on BSD, but I don't know how easy it is to get, say, xfree86 or > gnome compiled and running on it. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook/ appears to be good advice. There are some other links on the powerpc port page of the Debian web site. > How much functionality should I expect from debian on a mac compared to > my x86 setup? Are packages as readily available? For the most part powerpc is pretty up-to-date, particularly with the incentive of the checks of such things by the scripts that manage the testing distribution. http://buildd.debian.org/stats/ shows it as consistently the most up-to-date architecture in unstable save for i386 at the moment. A few specific things are missing. I expect to miss valgrind, certainly. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
