[Gllug] Has anyone seen th HP nx5000 with suse 9.1

[NorthLondon John]

On 27 Sep 2004, at 16:32, Chris Bell wrote:

> On Mon 27 Sep, George Wright wrote:
>
>>
>> I personally have an Apple PowerBook which hardware-wise is a very 
>> nice
>> machine, but Linux support is a bit iffy. Quality control on Apple's 
>> stuff is
>> a bit shaky though. Other problems are that Airport Extreme (802.11g) 
>> doesn't
>> work in Linux, and nor does sleep. If you're wanting to use OS X then 
>> it's
>> fine, but if you're thinking about Linux then be prepared to put up 
>> with
>> hardware issues.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> George
>
>    I have heard that there is a software pack around which adds 
> additional
> *nix-style packages to OS X. It seems that Apple hardware is designed
> individually and does not follow a normal sequence of improvements, so 
> there
> are less "fits all" situations, hence the problems getting things to 
> work.

For OS X there are a number of ports of *nixy applications. Off the top 
of my head there's Gentoo-OS X, Darwin Ports, and Fink. The last is 
what I use: it's debian apt-based, well maintained and the oldest of 
the three.
http://fink.sourceforge.net/

John

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