Linux on the Laptop
I must admit, I’m impressed. A few years ago I bought a PowerBook G4 to replace an aging Sony Vaio (PCG-FX220). The Vaio really had seen better days, the solder on the memory socket was coming loose so that only one socket now works, its a fairly old P3, and well, it looks like a beast by modern standards.
All of that aside, I picked it up and put a Debian testing install on it with Gnome as the desktop OE. I must say that I’m very impressed. Running with only 256MB of memory I am able to do everything that I want to with that laptop. I can surf, read email, and ssh off to other machines, using this one as essentially a glorified X term.
I’m not going to be giving up any of my macs any time soon to run only on this, but I was pleasantly surprised at how well it ran.
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