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    Linux on a Macbook Pro?

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by kingcrowing, Jun 21, 2006.

  1. kingcrowing

    kingcrowing Notebook Evangelist

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    has anyone tried this? I know that there was Fedora Core 4/5 for PPC, but are there any distros intended for macs? I know there was Yellow Dog but will that run on the Core Duos?
     
    kingcrowing, Jun 21, 2006
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    yamla Notebook Consultant

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    TedJ Asus fan in a can!

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    Seeing as the Macbook Pro is an intel based machine, virtually all the major distros should work on it. I believe there's even a hack of Apple's bootcamp to allow you to triple boot the machine (OS X/Windows/linux).

    Ah, here we go...

    http://wiki.onmac.net/index.php/Triple_Boot_via_BootCamp
     
    TedJ, Jun 21, 2006
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    I think there are some EFI related booting issues so not all X86 Linux work out of the box with MacBook Pro but I believe almost all hardware should be supported in linux kernel already.
     
    ufster, Jun 25, 2006
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    cool, I think I'm going to wait untill the final boot camp release is out to play around with linux too much, untill then I'll try it out with parallels
     
    kingcrowing, Jun 25, 2006
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