[plug] Sacrilege - running Linux on MacBook

[Richard Meyer]

Hi Euan

Somehow missed your answer among the rest ....

This is not bad - it's some sort of i5 with 8GB and a fairly decent 1TB
SSD .....  ;)   I could ALMOST unload all the porn of the intertubes on
there, provided I allowed it to overflow to /dev/null .....   :)

Thanks



On Thu, 2018-01-04 at 16:55 +0800, Euan de Kock wrote:
> I've been actively running Fedora on an old Pro  (model a1278) for a
> few years now with no issues. The only real tweak I had to make was to
> force the kbd to treat the numbers as the unshifted keys.
> 
> 
> With a decent ram upgrade and ssd drive it's a good machine for
> general use.
> 
> 
> I've found one corporate WiFi network that chokes, but all normal WiFi
> hotspots work fine.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Euan.
> 
> 
> On 4 Jan. 2018 16:34, "Richard Meyer" <meyerri at gardenshark.org> wrote:
>         
>         Hi there,
>         
>         I have succumbed to the Apple media machine and bought a
>         second hand
>         MBPro off Fleabay - it's a nice machine, fairly snappy and so
>         on and the
>         touchpad is great - keyboard not too bad either.
>         
>         Anybody taken it to the next step and installed OFOS* on it
>         yet?
>         
>         I've used to magic of Google - mea culpa - should have used
>         DDG, I know,
>         and found quite a lot, lots written by almost technical
>         people.
>         
>         Also Youtube has a lot - some of it total gibberish and
>         others, full of
>         how to install as a VM.
>         
>         I have booted from USB stick and messed around, but wasn't
>         able to get a
>         network connection (WiFi)   (Kubuntu 16.04)
>         
>         If I were to bite the bullet and go ahead and install, what
>         are my
>         chances?
>         
>         Thanks in advance.
>         
>         
>         
>         *  OFOS - Our Favourite Operating System
>         
>         --
>         Richard Meyer
>         
>         As the ghost of a sceptic, I tend to stay pretty quiet.
>         
>         Linux Counter user #306629
>         
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-- 
Richard Meyer

As the ghost of a sceptic, I tend to stay pretty quiet.

Linux Counter user #306629