[Gllug] Laptops?

[Fasih Rehman]

Here is a crazy notion get an Apple iBook or if you can stretch your 
budget a Powerbook. Apple just upgraded the iBook processor to the G4
series making the base 12" model a very good buy at only £850.

I'm running Debian and OS X 10.2 on an G3 iBook, I'm not alone on this 
crazyness, I used this guide http://www.flamingspork.com/linux/ibook/.

Another specialist PPC distro is available as well called Yellowdog 
(http://www.yellowdoglinux.com) which is worth checking out, though I 
haven't since I'm quite happy with Debian. (The Debian install is pretty 
straight forward, even when I got an Airport card back in February it 
auto-detected and worked.) An interesting piece on OSNews a while back 
might be worth checking out as well -- 
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3596. It might be worth just 
doing "Linux ibook" on google as well you'll see that many people are 
running Linux on iBook.


Fasih

My last signature was better.

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Richard Jones wrote:

> After leaving the power supply for my old laptop on a train, I'm now
> looking to buy a new one ... (Time to upgrade anyway ...)
> 
> I went to dnuk.com but was somewhat surprised to see that I had to pay
> the MS tax on their laptops. I was honestly hoping to get one with
> Debian pre-installed, or at least with no OS so I could put Debian on
> there.
> 
> Also their laptops weigh in at over 3 kg, which sounds a bit hefty to
> me.
> 
> Suggestions where to get a laptop without paying the tax?
> 
> Rich.
> 



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