[luau] REVIEW: Mandrake 8.2 PowerPC

[R. Scott Belford]

He doesn't say if it's an ibook1 or ibook2.  I am just about to try this 
on my ibook1.  I'll share how it goes.


On Sunday, May 5, 2002, at 04:19 PM, Warren Togami wrote:

> http://www.imaclinux.net/plain_page.php?caller=imaclinux.php3+record=95
>
> Review: Mandrake PPC 8.2
>
> The positive adventure went on, once Linux had fully booted up and 
> launched
> the KDE desktop interface. The usual things that give you trouble on 
> Linux
> all seemed to work fine, automagically! I was greeted with nice sound, 
> my
> modem worked fine and I was ready to browse the web. Also advanced 
> features
> like hardware 3D acceleration and sleep support worked out of the box.
>
> ...
> All in all, I think Mandrake has done it, the first PPC distribution 
> that
> installed perfectly and automagically on my iBook. I didn't have to 
> manually
> correct one single setting. And I think that's quite amazing, as it
> eventually makes a Linux install as effortless as a MacOS or Windows
> install.
>
> (read more in the article)
>
>
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