mind you are you aware that mandrake do a PPC version of 9.1?  for both sale and free download (i have all three ISOs if anyone wants them by the way).  unsure just how good it is but it is one option  also there is the opendarwin project (OS X backend for them as is iggerant ;]) - bsd based of course.  once again i have an ISO i downloaded out of interest if anybody is.
 
cheers...
david
-----Original Message-----
From: Oliver Jones [mailto:oliver@deeper.co.nz]
Sent: Wednesday, 25 August 2004 11:58 am
Subject: [wlug] Linux Laptops.

Recently I've been thinking about buying a laptop.  I've been thinking about an Apple 17" G4 Powerbook but I figure that's just a little to far from the flock... ie, I'd have to find replacements for too much software I currently use.
For serious stuff I currently use Linux (Fedora Core 1) and it's associated apps.  For "play" I use Windows XP.  On XP I mainly use things like DVD Decrypter,  PowerDVD, etc.  Media playback and storage utils basically.  Occasionally I play some Windows games but I'd be happy enough with just my consoles for that.
There are some things about buying a laptop that concern me.  One is unsupported hardware in Linux. The others are screen size (I use a 21" CRT at the moment) and speed (current PC's is a 2.6Ghz P4s).
Anyone here have any suggestions regarding desktop replacement Laptops that have very good hardware support on Linux?
Regards 
Oliver Jones