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Well, my Mac G3 Pismo (500Mhz/768MB PPC) has been a true warrior. I picked mine up second hand a few years back from a close friend whose company was upgrading to G4s. Running Debian on it has been great, though recently I find myself wanting to run Xen, browse YouTube (requires i386 libflash) and running out of battery (power adapter internal contacts require manual bending nearly ever other time I plug it in now). Today I am posting from my new dv9000z running Debian Sid. The only gamble was the Broadcom Wifi, which turned out to be a breeze, albeit with the clunky ndiswrapper. A quick overview of the features:
- WSXGA+ (1680 x 850) – Lots of desktop real estate – this was a requirement
- Turion X2 TL-60 – Dual Core, Hardware Virtualization, On-Die Memory Controller w/512KB cache per core – Runs AMD64 distributions – This was a requirement, and ruled out Lenovo or Macbook Pro (too bad)
- 2GB DDR2-667 RAM, Dual 80GB Drives – Plenty of RAM for OS Virtualization (Nexenta/Solaris, BSD, Windows, Maybe a trial OSX hack) – Software RAID, now allows me to use my laptop for mission critical work, without the risk of disk failure – This quickly became a requirement once I learned the HP laptops supported it. When drive prices come down, I will drop in more capacity. For now my main capacity requirement is for media, most of which will be NFS mounted from my new Thecus N2100 replacing my NSLU2 (due to memory limitations).
- Other Bells and Whistles including DVD burner, webcam, nice finish, good speakers, card readers and various I/O ports
Everything installed from Debian packages, which was nice. Kernel option pci=usepirqmask can lead to instability before X is loaded; noapic is totally stable, but breaks USB2. A quick overview of what I have completed/learned in the evenings of the Christmas break so far: Continue reading Christmas is here… Linux on HP dv9000z
