On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:20:51AM -0500, Nathan J. Williams wrote:
> Siegmund Fuhringer <sifu@isohypse.org> writes:
> 
> > i want to buy a new notebook and have a powerbook g4 in mind.
> > now i would like to know if it is well supported from netbsd.
> 
> 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.
> 
> > and i would also like to know if applications like galeon, gnome, usw...
> > are running on an powerbook. (currently i've only intel/amd based
> > computers)
> 
> The GNOME software works fine on NetBSD/macppc. I run galeon as my
> primary web browser these days on an iBook, and get moderate use of
> gnumeric and a couple of other GNOME apps.
> 
> 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.

it sounds, like NetBSD perfectly suit my needs...
and i don't think, that i like OS X that much.

thanks all :) - siegmund

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