On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 16:47 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Denis Crowdy wrote: > > > James Dumay wrote: > > > I find my Apple Macbook really excellent. > > > > Me too - mine is a 13" basic white model (Core 2 duo) about a year old > > About 2 years ago, i went from a white 13 inch PowerPC iBook to a > fully optioned up Dell Latitude X1. > > Admittedly the iBook was 3 years old when I did that, but AFAIAC it > was very much the right way to go rather than getting an Intel > powered iBook/MacBook.
Unless things have progressed, on my MacBook Pro I needed to install a stupid bootloader/BIOS emulator which reserved half of the hard disk for MacOS. At the time -- a year ago -- I did try to run Linux on the bare metal, but the video mode selection wouldn't work with just EFI. I really didn't want my new laptop to look like a pre-XWindows UNIX box, so I had to install BootCamp and give up half the hard disk to MacOS. Please tell me that Fedora or Ubuntu Just Work(tm) on the bare metal now. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
