[ale] Dell offers Ubuntu 8.04 on new hardware

[Forsaken]

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:02:49 -0400
"James Taylor" <James.Taylor at eastcobbgroup.com> wrote:

I'm going to install XP via BootCamp and dual boot it with Ubuntu. That
way whatever OS I need, I have it on disk (I don't store a whole lot of
stuff on my laptops, that's what the big raid5 in the closet is for)

So far I'm liking OS X (at least as an alternative to windows), but
I've only been playing with it for a few hours. I haven't touched MacOS
since 8 prior to this, so there's a few things to learn.

Anyone happen to have a link handy on getting file sharing to work
between MacOS X Leopard and Debian? I'd really prefer to avoid samba or
nfs if possible. Most of what I can find through a quick googling
refers to older versions of Mac OS X, and I was given to understand
that Leopard changed alot of things (that and I'm still learning my way
around the damned OS, so half the crap on the MacOSX side doesn't make
sense yet)

> I've been running a MacBook (NonPro) as my primary notebook for about
> a year. I wiped the OSX off of it and I'm running openSUSE 10.3 very
> happily on it. 
> I picked up a very compact firewire external drive and installed
> Tiger and Leopard on it so I could boot into OSX for testing apps and
> updating firmware.
> 
> All I really had to to make it work was pull down the madWiFI  trunk
> to get wireless going.
> 
> -jt
> 
> 
> James Taylor
> The East Cobb Group, Inc.
> 678-697-9420
> james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
> http://www.eastcobbgroup.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >>> Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> 7/31/2008 07:47 AM >>> 
> Forsaken wrote:
> > On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:35:15 -0400
> > Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> >  
> >> MacBook Pro 17". Currently a tri-boot, Red Hat EL 5 and Fedora 8 
> >> alongside MacOS X. Here are the specs:
> >>
> >> http://support.apple.com/kb/SP4
> >>
> >> There are a number of kernel patches specific to the MacBook that
> >> I've not had the time to pursue, that brings alive a lot of the
> >> neat functionality of the hardware.
> > 
> > Oh, I'm jealous. I'm picking up the 15" model tomorrow, wished I
> > could afford the 17". 
> > 
> > Out of curiosity, did yours come with 1 2 gig stick, or 2 1 gig
> > sticks of RAM? Google seems to give me conflicting results. Curious
> > if I can cannibalize the 2 gig stick I used to upgrade my current
> > laptop to get to 4 gigs or if I'll have to buy a 2x2 pack
> 
> I believe it came with 2 1 gig sticks.
> 
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