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Macs without OS X - Phyrne - 30-08-2012
Any of you guys out there running a different *nix OS on Apple Mac hardware?
Let's see what you got! May aswell include what kinda setup you've got going on too. Should make for an interesting thread me thinks :)
I'll start: MacBook Air mid 2011 (4,1) 11" model - Arch Linux | CK kernel patchset | awesome WM
RE: Macs without OS X - yrmt - 30-08-2012
I used to run FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD, Linux and Solaris on my Macbooks but now it wont work anymore :s
RE: Macs without OS X - Phyrne - 30-08-2012
(30-08-2012, 01:05 PM)Beastie Wrote: I used to run FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD, Linux and Solaris on my Macbooks but now it wont work anymore :s
D: Really? How so?
RE: Macs without OS X - yrmt - 30-08-2012
I really don't know. I tried many things but it still doesn't work :'(
RE: Macs without OS X - Phyrne - 30-08-2012
(30-08-2012, 01:30 PM)Beastie Wrote: I really don't know. I tried many things but it still doesn't work :'(
Well that sucks! The recent work Intel have been doing with their drivers for *nix, you'd think that most stuff would run smoothly :/
RE: Macs without OS X - yrmt - 30-08-2012
Well the macbooks are 2,2 and 5,2
RE: Macs without OS X - Saos - 30-08-2012
(30-08-2012, 01:47 PM)Phyrne Wrote:(30-08-2012, 01:30 PM)Beastie Wrote: I really don't know. I tried many things but it still doesn't work :'(
Well that sucks! The recent work Intel have been doing with their drivers for *nix, you'd think that most stuff would run smoothly :/
HA. Tell that to my Intel HD 3000. 800x600 on vesa FTW because there's no KMS support for Intel GPUs. -_-
RE: Macs without OS X - yrmt - 30-08-2012
@Saos, it's coming.
I just fixed my problem. I'll make a thread ;)
RE: Macs without OS X - Phyrne - 31-08-2012
Well, perhaps I should have said "IThe recent work Intel have been doing with their drivers for Linux" :P KMS worked 'out of the box' on Arch for me... before I'd even installed their driver!
I'm going to be taking my first steps into the BSD world next week, going to install FreeBSD on my desktop. I'm quite excited! :D
RE: Macs without OS X - yrmt - 31-08-2012
I needed to burn a refit cd to update refit after I installed FreeBSD or it wouldn't boot anything.
RE: Macs without OS X - Phyrne - 31-08-2012
(31-08-2012, 06:30 AM)Beastie Wrote: I needed to burn a refit cd to update refit after I installed FreeBSD or it wouldn't boot anything.
My desktop is one I built, and has a BIOS, so no need to be messing around with EFI stuff :D
Thanks for the tip though Beastie!