Wanted to add that my OS X partition was mounted on the desktop with a mountpoint folder in /media. I had desktop access to my iTunes collection out of the box! Fantastic!
Link Swanson wrote: > Ubuntu Feisty Beta installed on my MacBookPro: > > GRUB installed fine and needed no tweaking. > > Wireless drivers were installed and working as soon as I booted the live CD > > I was prompted to install the ATI fglrx drivers, which succeeded and > wrote a beautiful xorg.conf, complete with "Composite" disabled. I had > to add "1680x1050" to a bunch of subsections to get my resolution correct. > > Trackpad tap-click works out of the box. > > All function buttons work, including display brightness, audio, and > keyboard backlight, and they even have a little display that pops up > like in OS X! > > Runs much cooler than when I was running Fedora, SUSE, or Mandrake. (I > don't know anything about the applesmc kernel modules or whatever, but > it seems to run cooler). > > I am excited about this because I'm not very good at configuring and I'd > rather that things JUST WORK out of the box. Feisty is the first distro > that I have seen that gets this many things working out of the box. > Hell, most distros required significant time just to get the bootloader > working, with hours of frustrating work to get everything else going. > > As a noob and someone who just wants to use Linux and not f- around all > day, Feisty is a blessing. > > http://releases.ubuntu.com/feisty/ > > Link > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Mactel-linux-users mailing list > Mactel-linux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Mactel-linux-users mailing list Mactel-linux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users
