Comments on: From OS X to Debian on a iBook

By: Boborosso

Boborosso — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:09:34 +0000

I suggest linking to the copy of boborosso.com articole on howtoforge or getting the article itself (it’s Creative Commons licensed) I won’t be renewing the boborosso domain so the link will eventually break. I tested with the official etch installer and it still works. Have a nice day

By: peter.makholm.net » Blog Archive » From OS X to Debian on a iBook

peter.makholm.net » Blog Archive » From OS X to Debian on a iBook — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 18:03:02 +0000

[...] My previous post generated a lot of useful comments. Some of them was about using the synaptics trackpad driver. Unfortunately it only works, as Itai Seggev says, on post July 2005 iBooks and my iBook seems to be from August 2004 (this fact took me a long time to realize). [...]

By: Fabian

Fabian — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 08:42:01 +0000

I think banshee is also capable to sync your iPod. It’s a mono-based gtk-application in case you do not like amarok.

By: Flemming Jacobsen

Flemming Jacobsen — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:22:35 +0000

I use gtkpod for updating my iPod - no problems whatsoever.
As for playing music on your stereo, I suggest http://slimdevices.com/

By: Itai Seggev

Itai Seggev — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 03:59:09 +0000

I’m assuming you have a post July 2005 ibook (with a scrolling touchpad), the driver emulates a synatpics touchpad so you can use two/three button taps and other gestures for buttons 2/3. man synaptics for the details.

By: Don Armstrong

Don Armstrong — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 22:40:31 +0000

To get two mouse buttons is actually fairly simple:

You can use RTCornerButton LTCornerButton in your synatpics configuration section, or you can just use two and three fingers for the middle and right buttons. Makes it simple enough, in my experience.

By: Neil Williams

Neil Williams — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 22:21:40 +0000

I’m using Debian on a 12inch iBook, installed via the CD drive. One little tip of the mouse buttons - USB mice, even the really cheap ones - seem to work fine. As for Safari, I’ve found Galeon to be a much better browser. One the move, the single mouse button grows on you after a while but a “travel USB” mouse helps on those occasions when you do actually have the laptop on some kind of flat surface. I removed OSX to install Debian and gained 8Gb of free space! Part of my Debian development is now done on this powerpc machine.

By: Drizzt

Drizzt — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 20:53:15 +0000

As a replacement for iTunes I would recommend Amarok. I does nearly all the things iTunes does and some other things too. Is (in my experience) much faster than iTunes and is extendable by Scripts. Maybe there is something for broadcasting via AirTunes already available (have a look at http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Scripts (there is a pretty useful list) or you can search http://www.kde-apps.org/ directly).

Greetings,
Drizzt

By: JW

JW — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 20:36:26 +0000

One button does NOT rule them all…

Take a look at Amarok — it can manage iPod content.

By: Zhenech

Zhenech — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 20:18:05 +0000

I don’t own an iPod, but I think Amarok has some nice features for mobile-players like the iPod.
If you don’t want to have kdelibs installed, maybe try gtkpod? ;-)