17" PowerBook G4?

[Greg Lewis]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 12:22:31PM -0400, Damien Tougas wrote:
> I have a 17" Aluminum PowerBook G4 (1.67 GHz) that I am considering 
> installing FreeBSD on. I would like to be able to use it as a desktop 
> system for development work. Will this work? Is all the hardware (i.e. 
> Graphics, WiFi, Audio, etc.) supported? If not, what pieces will I be 
> without?
> 
> Will I be able to get Java to compile? KDE? OpenOffice? etc.

You won't be able to get Java to compile.  Noone has ported it to ppc yet.
This is actually a reasonably difficult port since there are no ppc
bits in the source code at all.

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