[plug] iBook question

[James Budworth]

I had one of these machines myself before I got a newer iBook and I can 
say for certain that Yes they will run linux.

The one I had I installed Mandrake 9.1 PPC on and I was quite impressed.
Everything worked with a default install.  Even sleep mode worked.

I installed an airport card as well and with a little tinkering I got 
Kismet working.


On Tue, 4 May 2004, James Devenish wrote:

> In message <200405042151.32079.mousematt at webace.com.au>
> on Tue, May 04, 2004 at 09:51:31PM +0800, Matthew Prouse wrote:
> > It is an Apple G3 iBook, 366Mhz with 192MB of RAM. It's running OS 9.1
> > - although I found a copy of OS X 10.2 OEM in the same cupboard (we
> > once had Mac laptops for graphics/media work). It claims it will
> > install on this machine - and I will probably give it a try...My
> > question is: does anyone who has, or did have, one run Linux on them
> > at all?
> 
> I know there are definitely one or two people on this list who have
> looked into this, or something very similar to it, and may be able to
> assist. But something that comes to my mind immediately is that Linux
> and BSDs might not support all the hardware (e.g. modem, sleep/wake,
> blah). In that case, a better POSIX-type OS might be Apple's own Darwin
> (which is mostly open source, but happens to include Apple's
> closed-source drivers) or more likely OpenDarwin (again, principally
> open source but includes the binary-only drivers). However, I personally
> couldn't imagine going back to Darwin 6, upon which the most recently
> OpenDarwin release is based (Apple's up to Darwin 7). For the same
> reason, I couldn't imagine using OS X 10.2 as opposed to 10.3.3.
> Actually, I /can/ imagine it, and I like 10.3.3 so much more as both a
> user and developer, which is why I don't fancy the idea. YMMV.
> 

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James Budworth