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Will Linux make a significant difference? Want to play movies on iBook G3 800Mhz...
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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 966452" data-attributes="member: 24098"><p>You mean Mac-Forums.com, right? Or is this just your second stop after trying there first?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Sounds about right for a machine of that vintage. Although PCs of the day could play DVDs, many of them had hardware codecs that took the work of DVD playback away from the system.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Probably not. Not unless you had an extremely stripped down Linux distro. And even then, it would be a lot of hassle to find a PPC port that has the drivers specific to your machine. It simply doesn't make a whole lot of sense to invest that kind of energy when you could pick up a portable DVD player for less than $100.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 966452, member: 24098"] You mean Mac-Forums.com, right? Or is this just your second stop after trying there first? Sounds about right for a machine of that vintage. Although PCs of the day could play DVDs, many of them had hardware codecs that took the work of DVD playback away from the system. Probably not. Not unless you had an extremely stripped down Linux distro. And even then, it would be a lot of hassle to find a PPC port that has the drivers specific to your machine. It simply doesn't make a whole lot of sense to invest that kind of energy when you could pick up a portable DVD player for less than $100. [/QUOTE]
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