On Saturday 25 Feb 2012 19:04:20 [email protected] wrote: > My name is Simon and I am a long time Mac user who has had it up to > his eyeballs with Apple's general contempt of its customers. I have
Hi Simon, welcome to DLUG. > In the meantime can I just ask: does anyone use Ubuntu (or any Linux > distribution) on Mac hardware? I realize that it is far more common to > run on a pc but as my Mac has an i386 processor I hope it shouldn't be > too difficult (EFI versus BIOS issues notwithstanding). I am hoping to > avoid using a dual boot set up as the HD I am looking at is limited in > its capacity. I'm not aware of anyone in the group who is running Linux on Mac these days. Many years ago, when Macs came with proper processors :-) , we had a member who ran Yellow Dog, but I don't recall the subject of Macs coming up since. However, I note that there are a number of howto pages out on the web, including this one: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook. This has links to specific information about MacBook versions, including the 4.1. I can't vouch for how easy or difficult it is to do this, but I've always found the Ubuntu online documentation to be pretty good. I note that the docs are slightly out of date, because the link mentioned above only refers to installation of 10.10, (although the target talks about 11.04). Even so, the actual installation instructions are via a further link and are claimed to be generic. Let us know how you get on! -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-03-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
