Goodbye OSX

Apopcalyptic

Apopcalyptic

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Well, my Gentoo minimal CD is burning as we speak.

I'm a cheapskate and don't want to pay for a newer version of OSX just to use up to date software on my aging iBook G4. After several years away (once upon a time I was a diehard Debian user, on kernel 2.4.18 iirc!), I'm returning to Linux. Depending on how things fair, my PC and PS3 may get the dual boot treatment too (I'm a gamer at heart...)

Wish me luck gents!
 
First thing I did with my minimac was install linux onto it. OSX was far too sluggish for me compared to linux. Good luck :p
 
Well, the Stage 3 tarball is coming down as we speak. I'm a bit disappointed that bootstrapping your own system from a Stage 1 tarball isn't supported anymore :(

Still, Links is still awesome :D
 
Good luck!

It's not too late to escape to a place where the air smells like warm root beer and the towels are oh-so-fluffy. Yes, I'm talking about the warm, loving embrace of Debian. ;)
 
Well, I finally have a working, bespoke Gentoo system. Rather foolishly whilst stripping out the kernel, I managed to remove the Airport Extreme driver, leaving the simple Airport in place... I'm about to set the kernel recompiling then go to bed methinks....

This brings back memories of many sleepless nights from many moons ago, breaking, fixing, then breaking again.... It's good to be back :D
 
I've looked at linux for my iBook on a couple of occasions, but have never found complete hardware support. Have you got full airport, ethernet, modem and power-saving functionality?

Edit: And two-finger track-padding?
 
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Mosfet : I have Airport Extreme and ethernet working quite happily. The Airport took longer than I would have like, but that's more a limitation of the driver than anything else! Mine is a 14" 1Ghz iBook G4, the model immediately before yours. You shouldn't have any problem getting either work. Ethernet was working out of the box, and having extensively researched, Airport Extreme is happily supported too ;)

I've not played with powersaving as yet, and AFAIK my trackpad doesn't support all this two finger hokum. It certainly didn't under OSX anyway ;)

It's worth pointing out to anyone planning on installing Gentoo 2008.0 on any PPC hardware at any point soon, the Portage profiles are currently broken! Granted, it's my own fault for not double checking, but the ppc profile folders are all empty. I've built *everything* with no USE specified :eek:. Had to jimmy it with an old 2007.1 profile...

Currently "emerge --newuse world" is running. Hopefully everything should look 'about right' once in Xorg - Imagine Enlightenment with no jpg support... Looked very strange :P
 
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Hmm, I've hit a big problem with (seemingly) libpng, though possibly Enlightenment DR16.

Everything has now been rebuilt with the correct USE flags, but Enlightenment refuses pointblank to display any of the .png files in the themes, essentially rendering it unusable. Unfortunately I'm at work at the mo, and off on holiday for a week at 4pm, but the error message was along the lines of 'image is NULL', for each and png every file that E was trying to call.

Other than that, everything works perfectly ;)

Mosfet, have a google for 'pbbuttonsd' :)

Unless someone has had a similar problem (and therefore knows a fix), I'll post up a complete log next saturday...
 
Trivial question but did you include png as a use flag?? iv missed out jpeg before and had some really angry moments of things just not behaving right till i recompiled....

Other than that i have no ideas how to sort it out, but well done on getting everything else sorted *high 5*
 
I *think* I might have sorted it. After sorting the USE flag conundrum, I rebuilt using 'emerge --newuse world', but should have rebuilt with 'emerge --newuse --deep world'. Basically, I rebuilt the majority, but not the dependencies... What a spanner :p

I'm rebuilding at the moment, so hopefully all will be well ;)
 
In fairness I have been on holiday for 6 days of that :p However, I'm quite happy being back on Linux, even if I still haven't got a working X environment yet. Links all the way tbh. Hopefully, I'll have a working desktop this evening though :D
 
RE: touchpad, no idea about macs, but the touchpad on my Inspiron does all sorts of cool tricks under Linux, and is all but unusable in DosXP.

(2 and 3 finger detect, side scrolling....all sorts)
 
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