[sllug-members]: laptop recommendation

[Matthew Hatch]

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Stuart Jansen wrote:
> There is no great distro for PPC. Yellow Dog is well tested, but
> releases lag. Debian is ancient and doesn't like me. Gentoo PPC lags
> x86 a bit, and isn't quite as well tested, but is my favorite. At this
> point, those three are the only realistiec PPC distros.

I dual boot my PowerBook between MacOS and Debian Sarge.  For the most 
part, it's pretty up to date, but Firefox and Thunderbird are quite 
outdated ('tis okay, I use them in MacOS).  My only real complaints with 
Linux (any distro) on my Apple are:

   1.  The lack of support for the Broadcom BC94306 (Apple's Airport 
Extreme) wireless chipset.  This isn't necessarily Apple's fault (well, 
they chose the hardware), but Broadcom's.  Many x86 laptops use the same 
54G chipset, and thus have no wireless in Linux.

   2.  Lack of support for the PowerBook's sound hardware.

Beyond that (and getting used to "simulated mouse buttons" when using 
the trackpad), it's useful enough for my tastes.  Although, I have to 
admit, I've been using MacOS a LOT recently (My desktop running SuSE 9.1 
hasn't been used in over a week).  I just find it so easy to use, and 
it's surprisingly stable.  I use Fink to bring in all (well, MOST) of my 
GNU utilities I'm so used to, almost making no point at all to running 
Linux on my PB (except, of course, to say that I am.  Hehehe).

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