[TriLUG] distro for macbook pro?

Michael Kimsal mgkimsal at gmail.com
Mon Dec 14 16:09:57 EST 2009


Or give virtualbox a spin before you shell out for vmware fusion :)

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Ron Kelley <rkelleyrtp at gmail.com> wrote:
> How about just getting VMWare Fusion and load Linux in your VM?  It works great!  I use it everyday and it is rock solid.  No real need to dual-boot...
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> -Ron
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> On Dec 14, 2009, at 3:50 PM, Charles Mangin wrote:
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>> i'm thinking of treating myself to a new macbook pro this Christmas, and i thought i'd dual boot it with OS X and linux. Fedora is my distro of choice on a variety of other boxes, so i'll probably go that direction, but i figured i'd ask what the peanut gallery had to say.
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>> my intent is to dual boot, so it has to play nice with Apple's Boot Camp, and have available drivers "out of the box" for the Apple hardware (wireless card, firewire, etc)
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>> any suggestions or caveats are welcome.
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>> thanks!
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>> Charles Mangin
>> Option8, LLC - Making Macs happy since 1999.
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