Comments on: Fedora 10 and the MacBook Aluminium (5,1) [Guide]

By: PatrickEB

PatrickEB — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 05:26:07 +0000

I’m often surprised by how the Macs are not ready for Linux yet.

The OS is available for them to test, they can work out which hardware would best suit it, but they seem to resolutely refuse to ensure that their hardware works properly.

I’m not clear when they’ll learn but I guess until then one can look at style over substance and hope they finally get their act together

By: SendDerek

SendDerek — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 05:15:26 +0000

Thank you for that suggestion! If it really does work, that might save a lot of steps from this little guide. I'm not going to be making any changes to it though because I'm working on moving over to Fedora 11. I just don't think Fedora 10 was ready for the MacBook yet.

By: SendDerek

SendDerek — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 05:13:02 +0000

Thank you for that update! Sounds like you got lucky. Everybody else I've read about hasn't had the GUI work for them at all. Good thing Fedora 11 will be fixing that problem.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:35:38 +0000

I have a unibody MacBook Pro and the Fedora 10 GUI installer worked just fine for me…. Thanks for posting the info about pommed. Looks like Mandriva 2009.1 (RC1) has version 1.25.

By: eelco

eelco — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:02:22 +0000

You might want to add the xdriver=vesa option when booting the install. That will give you a graphical UI, and with that, the LVM options in the partition manager.

By: SendDerek

SendDerek — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:40:45 +0000

Use the “Ping” utility to benchmark your network performance, not Firefox or any other browser. This will give you the true performance of your network. Compare the results from both Mac OS X and Linux.

By: Joy

Joy — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:40:12 +0000

hi thank you for answering!maybe i don’t explayn well the problem!my connection is very slow!!my browser, mozilla, is very very slow also to reaching google.With Leopard i haven’t this probem…do you know why?!maybe the fault is of the driver of the wifi card (broadcom 4322)…

By: SendDerek

SendDerek — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:41:58 +0000

I don’t know. I believe that you’re talking about the GRUB menu. If you interrupt the countdown by hitting an arrow key (or any key), do you get any other options? There may be a list of Kernel versions you can boot into. Try booting into a earlier one than the one on top.

By: Joy

Joy — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:02:31 +0000

hi i’ve a macbook aluminium loke your but i’ve a little problem…i’ve done the installation of fedora without problem also of the wifi card…but it’s very very slow(and i’m sure it isn’t the connection).Did it happens also to you?answer me please!!!

By: Davide

Davide — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:56:42 +0000

Yes i have Refit installed on my mac…i’ve partitioned my disk for the ext3 and for the swap…you can answer me also by email.Thank you very much…