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Motorola G4 Chip News

Posted by Hemos on from the incoming-chip-fun dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "MacOS Rumors has a few tidbits on the upcoming G4 chips. Sounds like it should have good SMP capabilities, and be blazingly fast. I think Linux certainly has a good future on the macs "

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  1. No future with that piece of crap iMac mouse!! by mdxi · · Score: 2

    I think his point was that most window managers expect a three-button mouse and have very basic functionalities that depend on this.

    With 2 buttons, you can use a chording technique to emulate 3 buttons but with only one, you have to resort to the very unsatisfactory method of combining keystrokes and mouseclicks.

    It is stupid of Apple to introduce contextual menus into the OS and stick with a 1-button mouse design.

    And I'm not a Mac-basher (although I used to be)...I own 3 Macs. And a Kensington Orbit :)

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  2. We'll see by Gromer · · Score: 2

    Linux has a future on Macs if Apple abandons their policy of not releasing developer info for their hardware. However, for the moment this looks unlikely. Good ol' proprietary Apple, making the world safe for Intel.

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  3. Not until there is USB support by Artemisia · · Score: 2
    Of course, how many iMac owners will suffer through a Linux install?

    On the other hand, it ought to be straightforward to make the Linux install immensely easy on an iMac. After all, they are all pretty much identical. There's been a lot of news about making Linux easy for newbies, and it seems like the iMac is a great opportunity.

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  4. I'm sure they can do it by webslacker · · Score: 2

    The Linux PPC guys figured out how to make Linux run on the beige G3's without any help from Apple, disproving Be's complaint that they need all the developer info in order to develop for a platform. Hey, they got N64 and Playstations running on computers after all.

    Of course, it'll slow things down a bunch for Linux development, but either way, Linux will still have a future on the Mac. Besides, Apple just posted a job opening for a "Linux Master" a month ago, didn't they?

  5. No future with that piece of crap iMac mouse!! by Evro · · Score: 2
    "MacOS Rumors has a few tidbits on the upcoming G4 chips. Sounds like it should have good SMP capabilities, and be blazingly fast. I think Linux certainly has a good future on the macs "

    I recently installed LinuxPPC, and let me tell you, I'm considering bringing my crappy 486 from home just to run Linux. One mouse button makes running Linux very annoying. There are ways aroung this with aftermarket mice and special commands, I know, but linuxPPC will not take off until these speedy Macs come with a REAL mouse designed for an ADULT HAND and THREE (3) BUTTONS!!!

    That said, I can't wait for the Lombards...

    -Begin Evan's Dumb Signature.....

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  6. Not until there is USB support by rm+-rf+/etc/* · · Score: 2

    But they still support ADB. And most people will probably prefer to use the older style mouse and keyboard anyway :)

  7. Nice about the FPU by David+Roundy · · Score: 2

    I'm glad they decided to include a good FPU. The 604 had a nice one, but when the "optimized for the MacOS" the G3 they decided that they would be better off without a fast FPU. Very sad, for a physicist like me. But at last they seem to have turned around and made a chip that is more like the old 604's.