Star Why I Ditched MacOSX for Linux - A Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 Review
Linked by Jon Atkinson on Tue 20th May 2003 18:14 UTC
Linux I entered the world of Apple hardware about 3 months ago now, with a second-hand iBook2. It was a 500mHz, 256mb, ATI Rage 128 model, with a standard CD-Rom drive. I spent the first few days trying to tweak Mac OS X to my liking, then a few further weeks installing and learning to use the applications I thought I'd need. Chimera, BBEdit, the developer tools, even the Fink X server so I could use Gaim.
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DVD & Multimedia output?
by iBooker on Tue 20th May 2003 02:42 UTC

Can you watch DVDs (if you had a DVD drive) with this sort of hardware on YDL? Does the VGA Out dongle work yet? How about the RCA Video/Audio out that plugs into the headphone jack?

In sort, how does it handle multimedia output besides the lcd?

I really liked debian on my ibook, but at the time multimedia sucked on it. 500mhz doesn't seem to be enough. Given on 10GB, I had to choose only Mac os X (since 10.2.6 with dev tools _seems_ to take up 5+ GB maybe I did something wrong, but installing 10.0, then 10.1 upgrade, then 10.2 upgrade then software updates, then dev tools left me with not much space)

I would hope eventually to move back to linux as that is what I code on most of the time, but this I need it for multimedia as well, and unfortunately (or fortunately if you have them) the later ibooks use a different video card, so I doubt much effort is being put on this driver.