Free macintosh laptops software for linux

Slackintosh is a port of Slackware GNU/Linux to PPC (Macintosh).

Russell Kroll was the first person who ported Slackware to PPC (http://slackintosh.exploits.org), but the project stalled with an unfinished 9.1 ..

I (Adrian) started again from scratch porting 10.1 to PPC, and ive stolen the name Slackintosh...

Please note that this port was not done by Russell, dont send him Bugreports.

I used the the Sources + SlackBuild files from Slackware 10.1. ..but i had to make a few changes:

The new Binutils from 10.x didnt like GCC, i used the 9.1 Version to build everything. The Installer uses BusyBox 1.0 and Linux 2.4 is not included, only 2.6.11.5 (Runs better on PPC .. imho)

Its not finished: Not all packages are ported. Youll get gcc, X, Mozilla, XFCE, Gimp.. but no
monsters like KDE & Co.

The installer maybe somewhat funky.. Missing packages are still listed and the yaboot installation isnt tested very well...

..but you should be able to get it running. It won the WFM (WorksForMe) price. (Tested on a MiniMac & iBook2)

WMTosh is an ACPI monitoring applet, targeted at toshiba laptops. It can show cpuspeed, temperature, battery level, fan function.

WMTosh also allows a limited control of those functions, plus lcd brightnes. As for now limited to linux.

I wrote this small dockapp in 2003, when i got my hands on the Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100, on which i was and am using ACPI. Back then there was almost no ACPI-aware DockApp. This one is based on WMiFS project, big thanks go to its authors. The first version supported ACPI performance and battery objects, as well as toshiba fan and toshiba brightness setting.

Old Laptop As Firewall is a single, 1440kb floppy Linux with 16-bit PCMCIA support and PPP for using a Pentium I/II laptop to firewall a dial-up connection.
The floppy is msdos-formatted and uses Syslinux to boot into a 4MB ramdisk with a Minix version 2 filesystem. The system was compiled with uClibc 0.9.28.
Main features:
- 2.4.34 non-modular kernel, compressed with lzma
- uClibc 0.9.28
- busybox 1.4.1
- pcmcia-cs 3.2.8
- pppd 2.4.4b1
- iptables 1.3.7
- dnsmasq 2.35
- 100 kb free on the floppy to add more programs!
Version restrictions:
- OLAF has not been tested with more than one computer behind
- the firewall (I only have two boxes to work with.)
- The supplied chat script probably wont work for many people.
- There currently isnt any support for local timezones.
- The Windows and Mac support is lacking; I dont have
- either OS to work with.
Enhancements:
- The file permissions in /etc/* were changed from 0600 to 0644 on all plain text files except gshadow, shadow, and ppp/pap-secrets.
- The file permissions on /bin/busybox were changed from 0700 to 0755.
- The original permissions were too strict for dnsmasq, which runs as user nobody and couldnt access /etc/hosts.

Laptop-Hotswap kernel module enables hot-swapping for disk drives with full DMA support under Linux. It requires kernel 2.6.15+ and ACPI.
I think it ought to work on just about any laptop, although Im not as familiar with ACPI as Id like to be. It works fine on my T22. There could be issues with laptops with two expansion bays -- I shut down the entire ide1 interface and fire it back up, and I do all my watching on the ACPI device for the IDE1/Master. So if you had a slave device, and you ejected the master, your slave will go bye-bye. Thinking about ways around that, but they dont export too much of the ide driver. I think itd be easy to handle, you just have to make sure youre not using either master or slave whenever you eject one of them.
At least on my laptop, dont go pulling things while your laptop is sleeping. Do it when its awake.
The floppy support should work, but my floppy drive isnt with me right now.
Theres one parameter -- auto_eject. If you set it to 1, the driver will automatically shut down and unregister the IDE interface upon getting a request for ejection (On my T22, I pull a little switch and a lever pops out -- the drive is still connected at that point, but it shows as a request for ejection). If your laptop doesnt have a mechanism for that:
echo -n "MSTR eject" > /proc/acpi/lths
Will shut down and software-eject the drive, and you can safely pull it and insert another.
See the scripts in config/ -- theyre made to work with acpid to handle the ejection and umounting and insertion. The mount/umount stuff only matters for a drive caddy, I suppose.
It shouldnt matter what you have in your laptop at boot. This module also fixes that annoying thing on my T22 where if I dont have a ultrabay battery in at boot, I cant ever see its status.
Enhancements:
- Support for the Fujitsu S7020 (and possibly other laptops using a PATA bay with an SATA main disk).

LaptopConfig is a tool for accessing features of laptops like hotkeys, acpi-events, display-brightness and powersaving in a platform independent way, so it is possible to run it on different laptops.
LaptopConfig is released under the GPL version 2.
Enhancements:
- compilation bug-fixes on systems with QT without STL-support
- (very unusable) support for non-ACPI capable systems
- support for cpufreqd.conf format of kernel 2.4

KToshiba is a battery and Fn-key monitoring for Toshiba laptops, but it does much more than that. KToshiba lets you configure the Fn-F# combinations with the supported options to let you have a complete and fully customizable setup for your specific model, and lets you use those special multimedia keys found on the front panel (prev, next, play/pause, stop), plus some others found on newer models.
It also features a Grapical User Interface (UI) higly integrated with KDE a powerful Desktop Environment, and a configuration module available through the Control Center or directly from the application panel menu.
All of these coulnt be done without the work of Jonathan Buzzard and his Toshiba utilities.
Main features:
- Battery status monitoring (including AC status)
- Monitoring of MultiMedia keys on front panel (if available)
- Mute/Unmuting (via KMix)
- Lock Screen (via DCOP call)
- Battery Save Mode options
- Suspend to RAM (via ACPI, if available)
- Suspend to Disk (via ACPI, if available)
- Video Out toggling (for the moment only a widget displays status, since some models do it automatically)
- Raise/Lower LCD Brightness
- Control Wireless Antenna power (On/Off), and monitor switch status (On/Off)
- MousePad enabling/disabling (via ksynaptics and synaptics driver, if available)
- Control of Speaker volume (for models that do it via hotkey)
- Control the Fan status (On/Off)
- Selection of desired Boot Priority
- Control LCD Backlight (On/Off)
- Control Bluetooth device (On, if available)
- Control CPU Frequency Scaling via SpeedStep(r) (if available)
- Control Hyper-Threading(r) support (if available)
- More to come... (hopefully)
Enhancements:
- Suspend support now uses HAL
- KToshiba is now able to run commands using Fn-Keys
- New model IDs added
- KToshiba now requires libsynaptics

Fujitouch project is an Xorg touchscreen driver for the P-Series laptops from Fujitsu.
Enhancements:
- A segmentation violation which occurred when changing to a VT was fixed.

wificontrol project is a Kommander script that simply allows you to activate or deactivate the wireless module on your laptop.

Only works if using the acerhk module. Must be run as root (perhaps with kdesu)