Subject: Re: YDL 2.0 and new iBook?
From: Charlie Watts (cewatts@frontier.net)
Date: Mon Jul 23 2001 - 01:49:44 MDT
On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Martin von Weissenberg wrote:
> I would be happy to hear some comments from people who are using YDL
> 2.0 on the new iBook. I'm thinking of installing YDL 2.0 on my new
> iBook (dual USB, CD-ROM version w/192M RAM), mainly because OS X seems
> so heavy and YDL has Mac OS compatibility through MOL. I'm quite
> familiar with Linux.
I've got a new iBook too, and agree - while OS X is pretty, it is indeed
heavy. I also got the CD-ROM version - with only 64MB, and I dropped
another 256MB into it because it's so darn cheap right now.
> How does YDL handle changing network environments? I find myself
> jumping between two DHCP networks every day, using a modem dialup
> sometimes and being offline every now and then.
Works fine. I just ifdown and ifup the ethernet and it grabs a new DHCP
address whether I'm at work or at home.
The modem doesn't work yet. I don't think it works yet for anybody.
> How well do the iBook batteries hold up under YDL? Linux is quite
> disk intensive.
Disk intensive? Heh ... hrm. Relative to what? It all depends on what you
are doing.
I don't have precise numbers, but I would say it is not quite as good as
MacOS 9.
> How much memory would you consider "just enough" for YDL and a
> windowing environment (presumably Gnome 1.4)?
192 will be fine. I confess to preferring KDE to Gnome, but I think it
would be fine with either.
My biggest current complaints about it:
Only one damn mouse button. Why, Apple, Why?
(works fine with external meeces.)
Modem doesn't work. (in YDL2 as shipped, or with a new kernel)
Sound doesn't work. (ditto)
In short: If you like Unix, the iBook 2 is a decent notebook to run it on.
Light, decent battery life, great screen, ethernet works. I don't really
care about the modem or sound, but they would sure be nice.
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