Re: [CentOS] MacBook Pro and CentOS-5

2010-11-17 Thread Iain Morris
You could also try Fedora, which is considerably more modern as a client OS than Cent 5 these days. Obviously it will be quite similar to future releases of CentOS. I wouldn't really want to run RHEL on my laptop as a client OS. Understandable if you want to stick with CentOS 5 for certain reaso

Re: [CentOS] MacBook Pro and CentOS-5

2010-11-16 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On 15/11/2010 17:35, Jeff Chambers wrote: This is off list topic, but I have seen weirdness in airport cards on macs especially when connecting to Apple's Airport. A cheap fix is to buy a 2nd wireless access point and make sure to use that in bridged mode so it is not acting as a router and wi

Re: [CentOS] MacBook Pro and CentOS-5

2010-11-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On 11/15/2010 11:29 AM, James B. Byrne wrote: > >> Can't help directly with the hardware questions, but (a) if you are >> still within your Applecare coverage, take the thing in and get >> anything that doesn't work fixed before touching the OS, and (b) >> you might try Virtualbox with Centos as a

Re: [CentOS] MacBook Pro and CentOS-5

2010-11-15 Thread Jeff Chambers
This is off list topic, but I have seen weirdness in airport cards on macs especially when connecting to Apple's Airport. A cheap fix is to buy a 2nd wireless access point and make sure to use that in bridged mode so it is not acting as a router and wire that to your airport base station. I lik

Re: [CentOS] MacBook Pro and CentOS-5

2010-11-15 Thread James B. Byrne
On Mon, November 15, 2010 11:44, Les Mikesell wrote: > > Can't help directly with the hardware questions, but (a) if you are > still within your Applecare coverage, take the thing in and get > anything that doesn't work fixed before touching the OS, and (b) > you might try Virtualbox with Centos

Re: [CentOS] MacBook Pro and CentOS-5

2010-11-15 Thread Jeff Chambers
Being a mac system admin and support specialist and CentOS guy. I can say you can always try using an external hard drive to boot the Mac off of and install CentOS on that drive to play around and test out all the drivers for video card, wireless, etc... I don't boot into CentOS but have it run

Re: [CentOS] MacBook Pro and CentOS-5

2010-11-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On 11/15/2010 10:18 AM, James B. Byrne wrote: > After a long, and quite disheartening, series of hardware problems > with my HP laptop I decided to try out a Mac (late 2009 Intel based > 19.5 inch). In the months since January past I have discovered this > to be no significant improvement and I hav

[CentOS] MacBook Pro and CentOS-5

2010-11-15 Thread James B. Byrne
After a long, and quite disheartening, series of hardware problems with my HP laptop I decided to try out a Mac (late 2009 Intel based 19.5 inch). In the months since January past I have discovered this to be no significant improvement and I have grown tired of the persistent wireless connectivity