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No Reasons Not to Be Dual Booting Linux and OSX

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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by ValiantSoul on Sun 12th Mar 2006 21:07 UTC

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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.

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by Sodki on Sun 12th Mar 2006 22:33 in reply to "comments"

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2005-11-10

I've got the radeon 9200 in my iBook so accelerated 2D works but not 3D

Accelerated 3D works perfectly well on my iBook's Radeon 9200 for more than a year now.

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by ValiantSoul on Sun 12th Mar 2006 23:43 in reply to "RE: comments"

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2005-07-20

Oh? I guess I just couldn't find how when I last tried. Could you plesae point me to a link or explain how? THANKS

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by blixel on Mon 13th Mar 2006 05:45 in reply to "comments"

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2005-07-06

Sleep has actually been supported for a few months now. I dual boot Gentoo and OS X on my machine...

Same here. Sleep works great with Linux. Every bit as good as OSX. See video:

http://www.davidcourtney.org/Files/Linux-sleep_medium-[Xvid].avi

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by postmodern on Mon 13th Mar 2006 05:59 in reply to "comments"

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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.

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