On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:23:52 +0930 Glen Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. I have a G4 12" iBook running Debian Etch. No problems except the modem doesn't work. I haven't really chased it up much since the rest of it seems to work well. It is about a year old or so. I doubt if I would get another one since it seems that there are cheaper equivalents. Alan > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 427 486 206 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 FWD: 615662 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
