Need an advice

Tue Mar 25 13:46:01 2003

I've been running ydl 2.3 on my ibook2 for the last year or so, and I 've
had good luck with it.

5) Will the combo drive run properly?
I've had no problems with it.  Its burned and read everything I'v tried.

Modem is going to be a bit tricky.  I've never used the modem in my ibook.
 I've heard that the modem is a software kinda deal, which means no love. 
You'll have to dig around a bit, but this may be sticky.

The only thing I can say about this machine is that it was never fast.  I
got it brand new, and it was never fast (I have the 600mhz g3).  Its run
openoffice/couple copies of mozilla(I use the whole suite mail/news/web)
and there are times where I wish I had the g4.

Thats all I can say, the hardware works great (even better if you try the
benh kernels), its a stable and dependable tool and I'll probably be
running around with my ibook for the next two years.

> On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 06:36, maraqas wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>     I'm gonna buy an IBook2 with PowerPC G3 800MHz 128MB SDRAM
>> Combo DVD-ROM/CD-RW 16x8x8x24x, but i need it to properly run
>> Linux. Now, i've heard all around about this Yellow Dog, and it seems
>> to be ok. I need to know something about it anyway:
>>
>> 1) Is there easy-to-install ethernet and modem support?
>
> Ethernet works fine.  I don't have experience with modem.
>
>> 2) Is it "Red Hat-like" easy to use in general?
>
> Yes, YDL 2.3 is virtually like RH 7.3 (and I would assume YDL 3.0 would
> be like RH 8.0).
>
>> 3) Any need of specially tailored rpms or redhat ones are ok?
>
> RPMs must be for PPC hardware, not iX86.  Most often you will find them
> easily.  Occasionally, PPC RPM's are not available.  In that case you
> must compile from source.
>
>> 4) Is italian keyboard supported?
>
>> 5) Will the combo drive run properly?
>>
>> I'd like to hear from someone's experience if it's suitable for
>> office-like use. I mean,
>> this is my average scenario of tasks running together:
>>
>> 1) acrobat reader
>
>> 2) openoffice
>
> Not a problem.  I believe it comes with YDL purchased CD's.  Or it can
> be downloaded and installed from the internet.
>
>> 3) mailer
>
> Evolution is very popular mail application.  It is include with YDL.
>
>> 4) browser
>
> Should be lots.
>
>> 5) audioplayer
>
> RealPlayer, XMMS.
>
>>
>> Will the machine manage them good?
>
> In my opinion running (any) Linux distribution on (any) laptop is a bit
> of a crap shoot.  My experience with iBook is that it is not any more
> frustrating than what I hear running Linux on an Intel laptop, probably
> better since the variety of proprietary hardware is less. And then there
> is always MacOSX and Fink.  ;^)
>
> Read the recent review of YDL...
>
> http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3109
>
> And YDL's "How To's" for additional information:
>
> http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/
>
>>
>> Another thing i'd like to know is: what are the main differences
>> between YDL 2.3 and 3.0?
>>
>>
>> Thank you very much
>>
>> Maq
>>
>>
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