I, too, have been looking into this combo as iBooks are cheaper here in
France than comparably powered laptops, and hey, well, let's face it, a cool
orange beast that has 6 hours of automomy is pretty cool.
My understanding of the problems so far are this:
1. Sound does not work
2. the modem will work provided you use yaboot (or the other one, I use a
386 laptop right now), but then you only get 256colours (8bpp). Or, no modem
and colour with another boot loader.
3. You need to have access to the source code for most programs to compile
them(for instance, you can't use StarOffice as it is compiled for 386 only)
4. The Airport will work but it's very hacked apparently
5. The SuSe distro is still in beta, you should use LinuxPPC or YellowDog
(both have been reported having problems)
6. Solving your problems will be harder if you're a newbie or not a Linux
hound because there just aren't that many people using it.
7. For some reason many of the best resources seem to be in French (probably
aforementioned price thingy)
For me, the killer is sound. I *really* like playing the MP3s while I work,
so a quiet laptop for me is anethema. I don't know, a lot of people seem to
be interested in the Linux/iBook combo so I'm sure full support is on its
way.
Take care,
Daryl.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Christoph Hammann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 3:23 AM
Subject: Apple iBook
Dear listmembers!
I plan on getting an Apple iBook but wouldn't if there were any
unsurmountable
issues concerning getting Linux PPC running on it. I had thought of SuSE 6.4
.
Does any one of you have this combination running? Please be so kind to
share
your experiences, good or bad.
TIA!
Christoph Hammann
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