oneafrikan
July 9th, 2005, 03:12 PM
Hey All
I recently had a wow moment (epiphany more likely) after installing Ubuntu on my Dell c840 laptop (I had been using Red Hat 9 on an old 486). So, as a result of that I'm seriously considering getting a powerbook G4 as a mobile development machine, just 'cos it looks cool, has a great battery life and is pretty small and neat.
If I did get a mac, I wouldn't even try doing a dual boot with Tiger, as any of the tools that I could use on a mac are too expensive anyways, so I wouldn't use them. Just a nice clean install of Ubuntu.
So, does anyone actually use a powerbook to do web dev using Ubuntu? - after doing some initial research, I'm a bit reticent to do so as it seems there are a few issues that may make the whole process not "just work"... (everything just worked when putting Ubuntu on my dell)...
If not, then I'm just gonna grab a Dell Inspiron from the Dell outlet (http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/compare.aspx/inspn?c=uk&l=en&s=dfo) and go well with Dell... ;-)
This is what I've read so far:
http://joh.deworks.net/powerbook/
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=34104 - same content as above but in the forums
http://www.flamingspork.com/linux/doc/albook.html
http://literalbarrage.org/blog/archives/2005/07/08/ubuntified/ (more positive)
http://www.livejournal.com/users/stunder/3215.html - uses a P4
http://blog.macalba.net/2005/06/20/on-laptops-and-operating-systems/
This thread:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2004/11/msg00684.html
Cool - looking forward to any responses ;-)
Gareth
I recently had a wow moment (epiphany more likely) after installing Ubuntu on my Dell c840 laptop (I had been using Red Hat 9 on an old 486). So, as a result of that I'm seriously considering getting a powerbook G4 as a mobile development machine, just 'cos it looks cool, has a great battery life and is pretty small and neat.
If I did get a mac, I wouldn't even try doing a dual boot with Tiger, as any of the tools that I could use on a mac are too expensive anyways, so I wouldn't use them. Just a nice clean install of Ubuntu.
So, does anyone actually use a powerbook to do web dev using Ubuntu? - after doing some initial research, I'm a bit reticent to do so as it seems there are a few issues that may make the whole process not "just work"... (everything just worked when putting Ubuntu on my dell)...
If not, then I'm just gonna grab a Dell Inspiron from the Dell outlet (http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/compare.aspx/inspn?c=uk&l=en&s=dfo) and go well with Dell... ;-)
This is what I've read so far:
http://joh.deworks.net/powerbook/
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=34104 - same content as above but in the forums
http://www.flamingspork.com/linux/doc/albook.html
http://literalbarrage.org/blog/archives/2005/07/08/ubuntified/ (more positive)
http://www.livejournal.com/users/stunder/3215.html - uses a P4
http://blog.macalba.net/2005/06/20/on-laptops-and-operating-systems/
This thread:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2004/11/msg00684.html
Cool - looking forward to any responses ;-)
Gareth