> On Thursday 26 July 2001 12:34, Mark Brown wrote: > > Before I go and do something stupid, does any one have any particular > > (dis)recommendations about using the newer iBooks with Debian? Looking > > at the spec and grovelling around on the web it seems they do reasonably > > well. > > Its a bit more work, and sound and the modem don't work as they are dependant > on I2C bus....what that means I am not all that sure. this is my first mac. > There are people working on it. Hopefull soon sound at least will be a > reality. Everything else is really amazing. Decent performance....incredible > battery life. Usb, cdrom,dvd,cdr,airport,10/100,Xfree 4.1 acceleration of > video card all are workign well. If you are not new to Linux then I whole > heartedly endorse the new iBooks. If you are new......it could pose a very > steep learning curve.
My modem appears to work fine under Linux. Also, I am testking Jack's alpha sound drivers, and it seems to work reasonably just now. Ofcourse, no mixers or anything flash like that at this stage, but it's a start. Cheers. James Tyson --- Samizdat New Media Solutions
