Mandrake, on its website, claims to have full hardware support for the new G4 Apple Powerbooks.

Does anyone know if this support extends to graphics acceleration? If so, since the hardware across an Apple doesn't really change from computer to computer, will it autoconfigure the hardware, like video cards, or will I have to do kernel recompiling?

I am considering purchasing a Powerbook, but before I do, I want to know that I can still run all my favorite Linux apps and games without trouble.

Thank you, in advance, for the help.
- Steven

mandrake's XFree86 contains all the drivers it has. It should auto-detect your card fine. Am i right in thinking that most power books come with a geforce card ? if so if your wanting hardware acceleration (required for ut2k3 for instance) then youll need to get them off nvidia's site

Why would you want to?

A Mac running OS X offers the best desktop computing experience today!

Not only that, now the Mac OS (OS X) has a Unix core and with X11 is supposedly able to run all of your Unix/Linux software (though I haven't tried this myself).

By all means have Linux running on your server, but I can't see why you'd buy a Mac only to run Linux on it...at least for the time being.

...just my opinion