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On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 14:28 +0000, Gavin Seddon wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I have my eye on a apple laptop. It is 400Mhz. Will this run Gentoo |
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> and setup on a wireless lan? What will be will it be 64 bit, that is |
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> are they quite fast. It's only for working while I watch tv in the |
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> evening. Would it be worth it. 15" tft 300ram. ~300 quid. |
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There's no particular reason why it wouldn't run gentoo, as Linux has |
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supported EFI for a while now. However, I don't know that anyone has |
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ever tried it. |
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I don't know about wireless, because I don't know what wifi they use. |
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I'm assuming it's the centrino wireless (ipw2xxx), which is well |
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supported in Linux, and should work. If it's the broadcom wireless |
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(bcm43xx) that Apple uses in the their PPC macs, then there is a driver |
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under development for it, but it won't work out of the box. |
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Mac Book Pros are not 64-bit, so 64-bit gentoo will not work. |
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Daniel Gryniewicz |
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Gentoo AMD64 Team / Gentoo Gnome Herd / AMD64 Operational AT Lead |
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