Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 12th Mar 2006 20:50 UTC
Today, I decided to give Linux a try on my iBook. I've been wanting Linux on my iBook for a long time, but I've simply never had the time to do it. I ran the occasional PowerPC live CD, but live CD's are far cries from the real, installed thing. A second showstopper was that suspend never really worked-- and I cannot use my iBook without suspend. After trying out a new live CD yesterday, I found out that suspend on lid closure now worked mighty fine on Linux/PPC; hence, it was time to do the real thing. And oh how I was left surprised. Note: This is this week's Sunday Eve Column.
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2005-07-20
Sleep has actually been supported for a few months now. I dual boot Gentoo and OS X on my machine (I always grab the latest beta vanilla kernels and distributions don't always use the latest kernel so you may not have known about it). Yea sound can be tricky to get working at first. Airport extreme is not supported but I have a prism2 usb wireless nic so I can use linux-wlan-ng. Thermal support for fans and every works nicely. Overall, linux on pre G5s works great! I've got the radeon 9200 in my iBook so accelerated 2D works but not 3D
Now as far as G5s go - no thermal support, no audio support, etc.