Re: [Mactel-linux-users] MacBook Air

[gimli <gi...@da...>]

Hi,

you can simply boot linux from an usb dvd rom drive like i did ;)

happy penguin

Edgar (gimli) Hucek

> 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
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