Thanks, I'll take a look at that. Would be great to get a Trisquel skin and
sticker for it :)
I need to update it as well with information about how to put on Trisquel
stickers, not just the non-Trisquel stickers it mentions.
Ok, I updated the Macbook wiki page with what I found out about the trackpad,
thermal issues and swap space. I also mentioned about the Trisquel ISO images
possibly having problems booting with Apple firmware. Please take a look and
let me know if you have any comments or edits :)
Thanks! You can add the tip about the swap ;)
Hi pizzaiolo, actually I saw that and it was useful in getting
Libreboot/Trisquel up and running. I'll see if I can add anything that might
help other people who are also trying to liberate Macbooks :)
We have a wiki article tracking everything about macbooks with free software:
http://trisquel.info/wiki/macbook
Feel free to edit it and share your issues and workarounds! :)
In terms of heat: I bought it off of Ebay and, when I received it, the fan
wasn't working - the laptop kept cutting out when the cpu got too hot. So, I
installed a new fan and now it seems to be running fine. My wife has a
Macbook Pro running OS X and it doesn't seem significantly hotter or
How's it doing with regard to heat issues? Does it run hotter, does the fan
run more often and louder etc? Another user here took drastic steps
including drilling holes in the bottom and replacing the optical drive with a
copper heat sink to deal with that.
Update: I set up a 1GB swap file in /mnt and it seems a lot happier now.
Still, it seems a bit strange that the installer didn't set up any swap
space.
