Re: Experience of Debian in a Macbook pro

2011-07-12 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Dan wrote: > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Jon Dowland 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? > > > > Fo

Re: Experience of Debian in a Macbook pro

2011-07-12 Thread Dan
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Jon Dowland 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 hacker Ma

Re: Experience of Debian in a Macbook pro

2011-07-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
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

Re: Experience of Debian in a Macbook pro

2011-07-07 Thread Jon Dowland
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:

Re: Experience of Debian in a Macbook pro

2011-07-03 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, On 03/07/11 14:19, lee wrote: Jerome BENOIT 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 info :) It seems once

Re: Experience of Debian in a Macbook pro

2011-06-28 Thread Andreas Weber
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

Re: Experience of Debian in a Macbook pro

2011-06-28 Thread lee
Dan 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 limited, which rem

Re: Experience of Debian in a Macbook pro

2011-06-28 Thread Dan
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Torstein Krause Johansen wrote: > Hi there, > > On 25 June 2011 23:17, 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? > > Now that's a good question! I got my fi

Re: Experience of Debian in a Macbook pro

2011-06-27 Thread Torstein Krause Johansen
Hi there, On 25 June 2011 23:17, 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? Now that's a good question! I got my first Mac in January because I wanted to check out what all the fuzz was about a

Re: Experience of Debian in a Macbook pro

2011-06-27 Thread Andreas Weber
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 no

Re: Experience of Debian in a Macbook pro

2011-06-26 Thread Jerome BENOIT
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, Jero

Re: Experience of Debian in a Macbook pro

2011-06-25 Thread lee
Dan 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 back in time about

Experience of Debian in a Macbook pro

2011-06-25 Thread Dan
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 h