@Brad: At this point, we must assume the good people at Ubuntu are so deeply
committed to the public relations side of their distribution that they end up
falsely presenting it to be without compatibility problems -- even in cases
where the problems are severe. My attempt to amend that wiki to warn others of
potential madness was thwarted by an overzealous administrator (he meant well,
I'm sure).
Here's what happens: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11811
And then we, of course, press the power button. Upon the next boot,
Ubuntu forces disk check (presumably following the hard shutdown).
Forced disk check inevitably fails, and we're sent along the Möbius
strip of failed forced checks with no apparent way out.
This, in my estimation, would be enough to make most Linux newcomers
abandon ship.
As I said, Hardy is a fantastic alternative to Intrepid for this
particular hardware. I'm currently running Debian 5 ("Lenny") on this
machine. After dealing with minimal workarounds (none of which prevented
me from using it out of the box), it's running wonderfully.
I'm still baffled at the complete absence of documentation of these
major problems within the Ubuntu MacBookPro Wiki.
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