ubuntu versus debian for a G4 powerbook 12'

[Martin Pitt]

Hi!

I have an iBook G4, so slightly different hardware, but most of my
experiences should apply to you as well.

raphael gottardo [2004-10-25 11:34 -0700]:
> 1) Brightness control, can't decrease the brightness which is not very good 
> if you
> want to extend your battery time

Works out of the box in Ubuntu (pbbuttonsd).

> 2) Sleep

Does probably not work; might be fixed in Hoary

https://bugzilla.ubuntulinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1940

> 3) Digital camera is not recognized

Should work out of the box, for both usb-storage and gphoto2 cameras.

> 4) I had to recompile the kernel to get my usb wireless working

We added a bunch of additional drivers to the standard kernel. E. g.
my Prism2 WiFi card (NetGear MA-111) works fine with the Ubuntu
standard kernel.

> 1)  I heard that the power management of Ubuntu was not as good as Debian, 
> which
> would discharge the battery faster. Is this true?

Hmm, after I properly configured Debian, I got about the same lifetime
in both systems.

> 2) Can we adjust the brigthness, not possible with Debian at least not with 
> the original kernel

It worked for me in sid after I installed pbbuttonsd. Default in
Ubuntu.

> 3) I am not a big Gnome user, could I switch to KDE and still have the same 
> hardware support?

Automatic mounting of hotpluggable drives is not supported in KDE
right now. However, kernel drivers should be DE agnostic and work with
every window manager.

> 4) Does the DVI output works, which is very important to make slide 
> presentations

Don't know, my iBook does not have DVI.

Good luck!

Martin
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Ubuntu Developer            http://www.ubuntulinux.org
Debian GNU/Linux Developer       http://www.debian.org
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