On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Jon Dowland j...@debian.org wrote:
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 11:17:55AM -0400, Dan wrote:
I would like to buy a laptop. And I love the Macbooks pro. But I will mainly
run Debian. Is it worthy to buy a mac to run Debian?
Former Debian developer and current kernel
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Dan wrote:
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Jon Dowland j...@debian.org wrote:
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 11:17:55AM -0400, Dan wrote:
I would like to buy a laptop. And I love the Macbooks pro. But I will
mainly
run Debian. Is it worthy to buy a mac to run Debian?
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 11:17:55AM -0400, Dan wrote:
I would like to buy a laptop. And I love the Macbooks pro. But I will mainly
run Debian. Is it worthy to buy a mac to run Debian?
Former Debian developer and current kernel hacker Matthew Garrett advises
against it:
Hi,
I use MacBook (Old while one) via rEFIT.
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 11:17:55AM -0400, Dan wrote:
Hi,
I would like to buy a laptop. And I love the Macbooks pro. But I will
mainly run Debian. Is it worthy to buy a mac to run Debian?
I look into the documentation of rEFIT and it looks like
Hello,
On 03/07/11 14:19, lee wrote:
Jerome BENOITjgm...@rezozer.net writes:
The very first stage is to install refit ( http://refit.sourceforge.net/ ) from
Mac OS X.
And then Debian can be installed quite as usual.
For more details see http://wiki.debian.org/MacBookPro
Thanks for the
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Torstein Krause Johansen t...@vizrt.com
wrote:
Hi there,
On 25 June 2011 23:17, Dan ganc...@gmail.com wrote:
I would like to buy a laptop. And I love the Macbooks pro. But I will
mainly run Debian. Is it worthy to buy a mac to run Debian?
Now that's a good
Dan ganc...@gmail.com writes:
Lee: Why did yo say that their MacOS feels like having traveled back
in time about 20 years?
Because it feels like that ... About 20 years ago, I had an Atari ST.
The GUI MacOS presents you with looks and feels very similar to that.
What you can do is also very
On 2011-06-28 19:20, Dan wrote:
But I do not like that their hardware is so closed. I read somewhere
that linux has to boot in BIOS compatibility mode because Apple do
not release everything about their EFI loader.
EFI has been invented by Intel and will be used by lots of manufacturers
in
On 2011-06-25 17:17, Dan wrote:
I would like to buy a laptop. And I love the Macbooks pro. But I will
mainly run Debian. Is it worthy to buy a mac to run Debian?
Of course!
I look into the documentation of rEFIT and it looks like a hack to
emulate the BIOS. It is a pity that there is not a
Hi there,
On 25 June 2011 23:17, Dan ganc...@gmail.com wrote:
I would like to buy a laptop. And I love the Macbooks pro. But I will
mainly run Debian. Is it worthy to buy a mac to run Debian?
Now that's a good question! I got my first Mac in January because I
wanted to check out what all the
Hello List:
My boxes are Apple boxes running Debian (stable):
a MacMiniServer and a MacBookPro 15 (MacBookPro6,2).
Let say that the installation may not be so straightforward for Debian newbies,
second, for recent Apple, you may install a recent kernel and recent graphics
support.
hth,
Hi,
I would like to buy a laptop. And I love the Macbooks pro. But I will
mainly run Debian. Is it worthy to buy a mac to run Debian?
I look into the documentation of rEFIT and it looks like a hack to
emulate the BIOS. It is a pity that there is not a cleaner way to run
linux on a Mac
Do you
Dan ganc...@gmail.com writes:
I would like to buy a laptop. And I love the Macbooks pro. But I will
mainly run Debian. Is it worthy to buy a mac to run Debian?
A while ago, I looked briefly into installing Debian on a Mac because
being confronted with their MacOS feels like having traveled
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