Hi Steve,
Steve Finkelstein wrote:
> I'm most likely going to purchase the new macbook pro which was
> announced yesterday with the NVIDIA cards.
Good for you - I'm pretty interested too...
> Just curious. How much hacking is it going to take to have this machine
> run strictly Ubuntu? I'm looking to format os/x right off of it.
>
> Main concern is a working boot loader, operational fans (these are
> software controlled as far as I'm aware). It would be ideal to get Beryl
> working as well so I have an Expose substitute.
Never tried Ubuntu myself, but Kororaa (~gentoo++) was a pretty straight
forward install on the first generation MBP - comes with all the wobbly
windows etc. However, the second gen MBP (C2D) was a totally different
story. So it is quite hard to tell: either Apple has listened and
compensated for all the oddities of the C2D (nvidia rather then ati
seems like a good step IMHO), or the have not bothered and/or added even
more oddities... I wouldn't bet in either direction, but IMHO, properly
working keyboard during grub/lilo would be a great improvement and so
would fully working ACPI. (I'm now assuming nvidia will rock over ati.)
My few cents / Jonas
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