[Mactel-linux-users] MacBook Air

[James V. <ja...@va...>]

Has anyone boot any sort of linux on this yet? What are the results?

It's been out for over a month now and there has been very little
communication about it. (I've looked through messageboards, google, here).

I was checking out the hardware specs in the store (About this Mac...More
info). and I can see there it shares a lot of hardware with the standard
MacBooks (video, isight, bus).

I would like to purchase one and run linux on it (as I do with all my other
machines).

My concnerns are:

1.) Booting - it doesn't, by default, come with a dvdrom - but it does allow
Wireless boots - is this using a standard protocol that we can netboot linux
off?

2.) The new touch pad - The touchpad driver will obviously not take
advantage of multi-fingers yet, but does it even work on the newer 2+ touch
next generation Air touchpad? Working would be sufficient for me for now to
purchase - I would like to see if I can play with multi-touch as well in the
driver.

There are some hints someone has Ubuntu running:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/isriya/2265405622/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/isriya/2264613881/

but not much more than that. I'm going to try to get in touch with this guy.

James