Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 23:29:10 -0700 From: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> To: Damien Tougas <dtougas@bates.edu> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 17" PowerBook G4? Message-ID: <20071103062910.GA78886@misty.eyesbeyond.com> In-Reply-To: <4729FD47.7070806@bates.edu> References: <4729FD47.7070806@bates.edu>
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On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 12:22:31PM -0400, Damien Tougas wrote: > I have a 17" Aluminum PowerBook G4 (1.67 GHz) that I am considering > installing FreeBSD on. I would like to be able to use it as a desktop > system for development work. Will this work? Is all the hardware (i.e. > Graphics, WiFi, Audio, etc.) supported? If not, what pieces will I be > without? > > Will I be able to get Java to compile? KDE? OpenOffice? etc. You won't be able to get Java to compile. Noone has ported it to ppc yet. This is actually a reasonably difficult port since there are no ppc bits in the source code at all. -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com Information Technology FreeBSD : glewis@FreeBSD.org
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