At 10:20 AM -0500 3/26/02, Nathan J. Williams wrote:

:)It's supported and works moderately well. The things that don't work
:)so well are mostly laptop features like sleep/wakeup, battery
:)monitoring, video mirroring, and so on. But if you just want to boot
:)the machine and run, it's fine.

Also, the standard distributions of NetBSD will *not* work on PowerBook G4
(Titanium) models with BootROM 4.1.8 which is just about all of them.  Only
for the first few months did they ship with an earlier BootROM.

You'll need to run a -current kernel.

:)As someone else mentioned, you might be happier with OS X if you want
:)really good hardware support in a BSD-like universe. So you can buy a
:)PowerBook knowing that you can fall back to OS X if NetBSD doesn't
:)suit your needs.

Agreed.  If you're just needing BSD stuff, Darwin is free and (as far as
the BSD stuff goes) just as good as OS X.  Admittedly, some of the
administration stuff is a bit ... weird (read netinfo) to a BSD purist, but
it's a good OS.

I just need to get around to trying pkgsrc on Darwin.

  -- MW