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Re: [PLUG] Looking for a laptop
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On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 05:29:42PM -0400, Chris Hedemark wrote:
> Apple iBook. Great value! OS X is BSD flavored, or you can run BSD on
> it directly (OpenBSD is known to work, unsure about the others).
Last I checked, iBooks can run OpenBSD, Darwin and Yellow Dog Linux
out of the box. I'm pretty sure that Debian and Gentoo work, but
might take slightly more effort, as expected.
> I got
> my Apple (a higher end Powerbook) with the idea that I'd probably put a
> different OS on it but I've been very happy with OS X on it. X11
> support in OS X is finally pretty good so I think it's a very safe bet.
I had the same idea with my iBook, and came to the same conclusions.
Z.
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