Should I or Shouldn´t I ?

TS_The_Signal · n00b Joined: 09 May 2006 Posts: 12

I´m thinking about installing Gentoo on my 5 weeks old ibook G4.... but i´m not sure.... Becuase i ´ve tried a debina sarge installation 2 weeks oga, but it was not working... i gave up at installing the bootloader yaboot.... - forget debian.

i´m i gentoo fan since i heard from it.

and now. Please tell me, will it work? easy or will it take much time?

and please tell me some pros and contras between osX and Gentoo Linux.

thanks,

infjms00 · Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 10:48 am Post subject:

Yes, it will work perfectly, I'm using it on my ibook september 2005.

Acout the pros and contras, I don't know what to say as I haven't used Mac OSX very much, but I find gentoo is faster, and it's free, but on the other hand it's not so easy to configure and administrate.

TS_The_Signal · n00b Joined: 09 May 2006 Posts: 12

ok. thanks for the answer... and are there things that will definetly not work? maybe bluetooth or airport????

infjms00 · Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 10:58 am Post subject:

Airport drivers for latest ibooks use the bcm4318 chipset, wich still doesn't work very well, but it works. bluetooth works perfect.

TS_The_Signal · n00b Joined: 09 May 2006 Posts: 12

and whats about cdega and wine? i read something, and there was written that win332 and such things are not working.

i would also likek a virtual machine.... will paralells or VMWare work?

and...

i know, that linux is not really a distribution that will not find usb devices, is it true, that my ipod and my psp... and so on... will be mounted without any workaround?

and....

is there any program, that is working like spotlight from MacOSX?

and...

can i run mac os x apps with gentoo?

thanks for so far.... i hope its not to lot, but i have to know it..... i downloading gentoo since yesterday and I WANT IT

PS.: what do i have to do to get the iso on the cd, without any issues and errors? please... i never burned a other cd.... only audio-cds with itunes....

infjms00 · Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 2:57 pm Post subject:

No cedega or winex for ppc, not even vmware.

Ipod and psp are easy to configurate to get them automatically mounted with hal.

You can use kerry, is a desktop search engine frontend do beagle, simmilar to spotlight.

In answer to your last question, you can use MOL (Mac On Linux)

About burning the ISO, you can use for example Toast.

See you

sno35 · Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 5:43 pm Post subject:

QEmu may be ? :lol:

hawaiian717 · n00b Joined: 13 May 2004 Posts: 71

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JoseJX · Retired Dev Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 2774

Yes, this is a typical usage of MOL. :)
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