Subject: Re: Ease Of Use and Hardware Support (WAS: Linux Laptops)
From: Justin Christopher (jchristopher@takenote.net)
Date: Thu Mar 07 2002 - 00:03:48 MST
I think they should change their page about the iBook to indicate that
sound doesn't work. That's all.
I paid zero, which coincidentally is what it seems to be worth. (No
sound, no working ethernet, no working airport).
By the way - I think Apple's behavior is quite sleazy - but it seems
unrelated to this thread.
On Wednesday, March 6, 2002, at 10:53 PM, Robert Brandtjen wrote:
> On Thursday 07 March 2002 12:10 am, Justin Christopher wrote:
>> Hey, I have no problem with there NEVER being sound support. I just
>> think Yellow Dog should not be saying they "support" these computers
>> when in fact it doesn't work.
>
> It runs doesnt it ? ergo it's supported -
> just ask all of those beige G3 owners running OSX 10.1.3 now that quick
> time
> is largely broken for them - or how about all of those people with
> orphaned
> SCSI cards and peripherals - or the ones who bought NVdia cards and ATI
> cards
> directly from the vendor and now will not work on OSX because they
> don't have
> Apple's precise rom on them (read BS marketing scam by Apple)-
>
> yep - next in line for non-OSX TRUE compatibility will be the early
> blue&white models -
>
> If you search the OSXadmin list you'll see I predicted it 18 months
> ago -
> then the next target was the Beige G3.
>
> By the way- exactly how much did you pay for the YDL distro you have ?
> --
> Robert Brandtjen
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