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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2006-01-27
Gentoo and pbbuttonsd on my G3 iBook works so nice; it does all the things OSX would do on there. While OSX is a great OS, there's many things lacking there that us extreme hobbyists and power users yearn for. For instance being able to throw any handheld media player in there and moving music to and from it. Or perhaps passive sniffing (true monitor mode) wireless. Or even a complete and comprehensive package manager (sorry apt/portage are way nicer than DarwinPorts). But there are days when the "moving target" nature of Linux get's annoying.