Re: [Mactel-linux-users] Feelin Feisty!

[Link S. <lin...@gm...>]

Wanted to add that my OS X partition was mounted on the desktop with a 
mountpoint folder in /media.  I had desktop access to my iTunes 
collection out of the box! Fantastic!

Link Swanson wrote:
> Ubuntu Feisty Beta installed on my MacBookPro:
>
> GRUB installed fine and needed no tweaking.
>
> Wireless drivers were installed and working as soon as I booted the live CD
>
> I was prompted to install the ATI fglrx drivers, which succeeded and 
> wrote a beautiful xorg.conf, complete with "Composite" disabled. I had 
> to add "1680x1050" to a bunch of subsections to get my resolution correct.
>
> Trackpad tap-click works out of the box.
>
> All function buttons work, including display brightness, audio, and 
> keyboard backlight, and they even have a little display that pops up 
> like in OS X!
>
> Runs much cooler than when I was running Fedora, SUSE, or Mandrake. (I 
> don't know anything about the applesmc kernel  modules or  whatever, but 
> it seems to run cooler).
>
> I am excited about this because I'm not very good at configuring and I'd 
> rather that things JUST WORK out of the box. Feisty is the first distro 
> that I have seen that gets this many things working out of the box. 
> Hell, most distros required significant time just to get the bootloader 
> working, with hours of frustrating work to get everything else going.
>
> As a noob and someone who just wants to use Linux and not f- around all 
> day, Feisty is a blessing.
>
> http://releases.ubuntu.com/feisty/
>
> Link
>
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