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Peter Schultz writes:
 > How far off are we from a stable version of FreeBSD PPC?  Apple's 
 > laptops are sweet.

Except for the D#@% caps lock key.  It's IN THE WRONG PLACE and
apparent best tool for swapping it around (uControl) doesn't work
reliably and the dang led stays on anyway....

I've been told that the behaviour is in the firmware and is
unavoidable w/out drastic measures.

g.