Linux and Powerbook (plus mouse buttons) question

[Hades]

With all the Mac lovers seemingly wanting to get a MacBook (and who can blame them they look lovey!) it occured ot me that there may be some cheap used Powerbooks floating around. But rather than run OSX on it I was toying with the idea of putting Linux on it instead (probably Ubuntu which I can't seem to fault nowadays). If I were ot do that I'd still be stuck with the single mousebutton issue. So is there a way of simulating the second mouse button in Linux in a similar way to OSX accepting CTRL + Click for the RMB?

 

[punky_munky]

Oh god, why would you want to do that? Half the pleasure of owning a mac is OS X.

 

[Hades]

I thought I'd get that answer . I've got several machines:

A desktop running Windows and Linux
Several laptops running Windows and Linux
A Powermac running OSX

Of those I use Linux the most. But I fancy the looks of the Powerbook.

 

[cb_linus]

I was messing around with the latest kernel release (2.6.17) and found this in:

Device Drivers  --->
     USB support  --->

[*]   HID input layer support
[ ]     Enable support for iBook/PowerBook special keys

CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT_POWERBOOK:                                                                                            x  
  x                                                                                                                           x  
  x Say Y here if you want support for the special keys (Fn, Numlock) on                                                      x  
  x Apple iBooks and PowerBooks.

Hopefully of some use, though I don't have a MacTop, yet ...

 

[M0KUJ1N]

Also in 2.6.17 is support for Airport Extreme Wireless cards.

As for Macintosh kit running linux, well if its good enough for Linus Torvalds....

p.s. Linux runs faster on the same Mac hardware than OS X does, though this is mainly due to the overhead of using a microkernel and OS X's rather crappy memory management.

 

[Hades]

Thanks