Jesus Climent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 04:52:00PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: >> > >> > Which sources you base your information on? >> >> There are many. http://petitiononline.com is one of them. I signed twice. > > Check my installation guide for iBook 2.2 and you will see that everything is > working here. iBook G4 is having a bit of troubles, but it will get there, > eventually.
I have an iBook 2.2. I bought it 2 years ago because everything was supported (non-free modem drivers included), 3D included (ATI Radeon 7500). My initial statement was about current iBooks. > On the other hand, I have some new and old Thinkpads that have the same > problems with supported and unsupported hardware. See, for instance, the > problems with working wireless cards. Yes, but usually non-free drivers are provided. This is not ideal but at least you can use the hardware. >> > PowerPC laptops are very well supported by Linux, with the small exception >> > of >> > some small glitches in the matrix, but x86 laptops suffer the same >> > simptoms. >> >> Not quite. At least, there are drivers for 3D cards, a working flash player, >> even non-free. > > My 3D drivers for iBook 2.2 work fine. And flash, from my point of view, Not dealing with iBook 2.2. > sucks. Does not work on lynx. Flash sucks but I need it. Some people do it as well. > And non-free sucks even more. It is like admiting that close source drivers > for ATI cards are good enough. Then they dont work on your iBook and people > complain. Non-free sucks. But non-free drivers is better than no driver at all. -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org
