Re: [CentOS] centos 7 on older macbook pro

2015-09-14 Thread qui
Does anyone else run a CentOS (not necessarily 7) on Apple hardware, particularly laptops (and not in a VM)? If so, any pointers on making life easier? TBH I don't really know exactly what I want to use it for yet, so suggestions there would be helpful too. --keith Hi, I tried CentOS on a

Re: [CentOS] centos 7 on older macbook pro

2015-09-14 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 09/13/2015 09:25 PM, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2015-09-14, Hal Wigoda wrote: >> Use Oracles VM VirtualBox. > > Well, I explicitly don't want to do that, since it uses even more > resources than OS X by itself. Having linux run on the bare metal > without OS X should be much more efficient. >

Re: [CentOS] centos 7 on older macbook pro

2015-09-14 Thread Keith Keller
On 2015-09-14, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > I think xfce is part of EPEL .. I use MATE from EPEL and there is also > Cinnamon there. I believe you're right about xfce. I'm so out of it I hadn't even heard of MATE or Cinnamon. :) They seem more like DEs, what are folks using as

Re: [CentOS] centos 7 on older macbook pro

2015-09-14 Thread Scott Robbins
On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 10:27:32AM -0700, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2015-09-14, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > > > I think xfce is part of EPEL .. I use MATE from EPEL and there is also > > Cinnamon there. > > I believe you're right about xfce. I'm so out of it I hadn't even heard >

Re: [CentOS] centos 7 on older macbook pro

2015-09-14 Thread Scott Robbins
On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 09:18:56AM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > > > I was really surprised to see that streaming video and audio worked > > without having to do anything. And even KDE has not been too much of a > > dog so far, though I'm still thinking to install something like fluxbox > >

Re: [CentOS] centos 7 on older macbook pro

2015-09-13 Thread Hal Wigoda
Use Oracles VM VirtualBox. On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 9:33 PM, Keith Keller < kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently got a brand new MacBook Pro, replacing one that is over 5.5 > years old. I'm trying to think of something to do with the old laptop, > and one idea I

[CentOS] centos 7 on older macbook pro

2015-09-13 Thread Keith Keller
Hi all, I recently got a brand new MacBook Pro, replacing one that is over 5.5 years old. I'm trying to think of something to do with the old laptop, and one idea I had was to put CentOS on it. After some initial struggles, I finally found this page, which tells how to tell the installer to

Re: [CentOS] centos 7 on older macbook pro

2015-09-13 Thread David Nelson
This doesn't really help with your problem, but to address the specific question below: I run CentOS 7, and previously 6, on a Mac Pro (MacPro4,1). My experience has been good. I haven't bothered running anything to read hfs volumes as I'm not dual-booting it. I have a separate MacBook Pro

Re: [CentOS] centos 7 on older macbook pro

2015-09-13 Thread Keith Keller
On 2015-09-14, Hal Wigoda wrote: > Use Oracles VM VirtualBox. Well, I explicitly don't want to do that, since it uses even more resources than OS X by itself. Having linux run on the bare metal without OS X should be much more efficient. > On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 9:33 PM, Keith Keller wrote: >>

Re: [CentOS] centos 7 on older macbook pro

2015-09-13 Thread Hal Wigoda
Really, I don't have a clue. On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 10:25 PM, Keith Keller < kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote: > On 2015-09-14, Hal Wigoda wrote: > > Use Oracles VM VirtualBox. > > Well, I explicitly don't want to do that, since it uses even more > resources than OS X by itself.