I can't speak for Debian, but LinuxPPC R4 and higher are quite useable. I run it every day, at home and at the office on my PowerBook G3 Series. And now that Mac-On-Linux is working, and Sheepshaver is in the works, you'll be able to have the best of both worlds, run Linux and fire up MacOS whenever you need to.
I can use accelerated X at 1024 x 768, the modem works, etc. Sound doesn't work very well, but I'm not really worried about that. At this moment, you can't use Netscape with the glibc2.1 versions (LinuxPPC pre-R5 and Yellowdog and Debian, I believe), so if you really need that you'll have to use LinuxPPC 4.x. I'd say go for it! Hugh Rob Browning wrote: > >From the LinuxPPC page, it looks like they're working now, but it > doesn't really say much else about it (like how well they're working). > > So I was wondering if any one here had any experience using one. I've > got a friend who wants to get started with Linux, and seems like an > excellent candidate to join Debian later, but she also needs a Mac > laptop. I could probably talk her out of it if the G3's really don't > work that well with Linux/Debian, but she'd be much better off right > now if she could have one machine that did both MacOS and Linux. > > Thanks > > -- > Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "Brain-eating mutants are bad for business..." - Battle Angel Hugh "Batmensch" Caley
