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Journal Journal: hacking a notebook's keyboard

Journal by maiomaster on Tuesday March 04, 2003 @06:30AM

Browsing for some product like spays or such to clean out the keyboard of my ibook, i ran into this page which oddly documents a completely different approach. It seems like the author went bored with the (more and more dirty) white keyboard of his apple's notebook and decided breaking into it in order to get a "radical" cleaning. I've ever been attracted from people hacking their hardware, thus I found funny a lot of t

Comment linux over ibook (Score 1) 1048

by maiomaster on Monday February 17, 2003 @06:08AM (#5318185) Attached to: Buying a Small, Light Linux Notebook Computer?

Unlike some months ago, linux now runs pretty well on those hw. there are a number of distros which ships their own ppc-based releases, most notably mandrake, suse, debian, gentoo. notwithstanding just a few months ago it would be very difficult to build a good and complete ppc-linux box yourself, there are now many good guides, most of which very easy step-by-step guides, which will let you get quickly and easily a well-working OS. Probably for it's vivacity and support debian's still the most fair choiche right now, but i'm curious to see what will mandrake do with its 9.1-ppc. For the moment, those are some really nice guides: http://mij.oltrelinux.com/ibook/ppc_linux.html http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook.html http://www.cattlegrid.net/~christophe/titanium/ http://www.hispalinux.es/~data/ibook/

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