iBook

As a very premeditated post-Valentine’s Day gift to myself, I got me an iBook.

Glee!

The iBook is a G3 600Mhz with 256MB RAM, 20GB harddrive, Airport [802.11b] card, built-in: 10/100BASE-T Ethernet, Firewire, 2 USB ports, CDRW/DVD combo drive, and a 14.1″ display.

Software-wise, it’s running Mac OS X, and I’ve used Fink to install the latest Open Source UN*X apps on it.

On my work-provided Windows laptop, I had been using Cygwin to provide a framework for XFree86 under Windows, so that I could simply ssh-tunnel my X11 apps from the servers to my laptop, rather than face the Nameless Crawling Horror That Is CDE on my aging Sun Ultra 5.

Since OS X is built on top of a BSD UNIX variant, I’ve been able to duplicate the functionality of both my Sun workstation and my Windows laptop including using the Blackbox window manager, and compiling my own x3270 emulator. Plus, the iBook burns CDs, plays DVDs, and looks leet too!