Re: Considering to buy a PowerBook G4 or waiting for PowerBook G5...

2004-10-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 08:57:31PM +0200, Pascal Chenevas-Paule said > Hi, > > I prefer to by an ibook G4 who was more supported than powerbook :) > > Debian gnu/linux work fine on my ibook G4. > > I recommand you to define your needs, perhaps an Ibook G4 was perfec for you > and > it's less e

Re: Considering to buy a PowerBook G4 or waiting for PowerBook G5...

2004-09-26 Thread Pascal Chenevas-Paule
Hi, I prefer to by an ibook G4 who was more supported than powerbook :) Debian gnu/linux work fine on my ibook G4. I recommand you to define your needs, perhaps an Ibook G4 was perfec for you and it's less expensive :) bye. Pascal

Re: Considering to buy a PowerBook G4 or waiting for PowerBook G5...

2004-09-26 Thread Ivo Marino
On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 17:03 +0200, Pascal Chenevas-Paule wrote: > Hi, > Hello, > I think the new PowerBook G5 will be relase near September 2005 or perhaps > during the summer 2005. > The curent version of PowerBook was not completely supported by gnu/linux : > Mmmmh, this are not really good

Re: Considering to buy a PowerBook G4 or waiting for PowerBook G5...

2004-09-26 Thread Pascal Chenevas-Paule
Hi, I think the new PowerBook G5 will be relase near September 2005 or perhaps during the summer 2005. The curent version of PowerBook was not completely supported by gnu/linux : No 3D accel, No DVI output, No Suspend mode, No Airport Extreme (I found this : http://sourceforge.net/projects/linu

Considering to buy a PowerBook G4 or waiting for PowerBook G5...

2004-09-26 Thread Ivo Marino
Hello Debian PowerPC folks, I actually own an Apple iBook 2.2 (2001) running Debian GNU/Linux sid very well. I use this notebook for most of my personal tasks and also as development platform in the office I work for (iBook is connected via adaptor to an external VGA monitor). Three years passed