8:54 p.m.
I've come across a circa 2011 Mac Book Pro. It appears to be in decent
condition save for the power adapter which appears to have been chewed by a
pet, so it doesn't flame on.
Has anyone had success installing fedora on one of these? Just curious
before I put money into a power adapter, I'm guessing someone ran the
battery flat (its probably shot anyway) and didn't pursue getting a new
power adapter.
Thanks,
Terry
9:07 p.m.
Once upon a time, Terry Polzin <foxec208(a)gmail.com> said:
I've come across a circa 2011 Mac Book Pro. It appears to be in
decent
condition save for the power adapter which appears to have been chewed by a
pet, so it doesn't flame on.
Has anyone had success installing fedora on one of these? Just curious
before I put money into a power adapter, I'm guessing someone ran the
battery flat (its probably shot anyway) and didn't pursue getting a new
power adapter.
I ran Fedora on an early-2011 MBP (think there was a slightly different
late-2011 model). Fedora worked okay, but it was a kind of crappy
computer. The cooling was terrible, so anything you did that used CPU
would make it sound like a jet rolling for takeoff, while at the same
time throttling the CPUs because apparently all the fan was good for was
making noise.
A co-worker had the same model but running Mac OS, and it had basically
the same behavior.
IIRC the only hardware issue was that it used one of the Broadcom wifi
chips that had non-redistributable firmware, so I had to use the
fwcutter thing to get it working (but then it was fine I think).
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6:24 a.m.
On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 10:55 PM Terry Polzin <foxec208(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I've come across a circa 2011 Mac Book Pro. It appears to be in
decent
condition save for the power adapter which appears to have been chewed by a
pet, so it doesn't flame on.
Has anyone had success installing fedora on one of these? Just curious
before I put money into a power adapter, I'm guessing someone ran the
battery flat (its probably shot anyway) and didn't pursue getting a new
power adapter.
I used an MBP of similar vintage. One issue was the video switch
used to
connect
either integrated or accelerated graphics to the display. The switch
died, and macOS would not work. I was able to get linux running on the
accelerated graphics, but it was not straightforward. I only used it where
AC power was available as the accelerated graphics didn’t allow much
runtime on battery.
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7:03 a.m.
On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 8:55 PM Terry Polzin <foxec208(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I've come across a circa 2011 Mac Book Pro. It appears to be in
decent
condition save for the power adapter which appears to have been chewed by a
pet, so it doesn't flame on.
Has anyone had success installing fedora on one of these? Just curious
before I put money into a power adapter, I'm guessing someone ran the
battery flat (its probably shot anyway) and didn't pursue getting a new
power adapter.
I don't know enough about Macs to know what type it is. But it's old and
thick and has an Intel Core2Duo CPU. It only has 2GB ram so I put a
lightweight spin on it, LXDE I think. Works fine but the lack of a right
mouse button is annoying and there were a few other quirks but perfectly
usable. The ram could be upgraded to 4GB, which I would do if I was going
to use it on any regular basis.
Thanks,
Richard
7:10 a.m.
On Fri, 2022-09-23 at 07:03 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 8:55 PM Terry Polzin
<foxec208(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> I've come across a circa 2011 Mac Book Pro. It appears to be in
> decent
> condition save for the power adapter which appears to have been
> chewed by a
> pet, so it doesn't flame on.
>
> Has anyone had success installing fedora on one of these? Just
> curious
> before I put money into a power adapter, I'm guessing someone ran
> the
> battery flat (its probably shot anyway) and didn't pursue getting a
> new
> power adapter.
>
I don't know enough about Macs to know what type it is. But it's old
and
thick and has an Intel Core2Duo CPU. It only has 2GB ram so I put a
lightweight spin on it, LXDE I think. Works fine but the lack of a
right
mouse button is annoying and there were a few other quirks but
perfectly
usable. The ram could be upgraded to 4GB, which I would do if I was
going
to use it on any regular basis.
I'd recommend an SSD as well. My brother has a Macbook of around that
vintage (or even older) and it made a huge difference.
poc
7:59 a.m.
On Fri, 2022-09-23 at 07:03 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
the lack of a right mouse button is annoying
You don't have to use a Mac mouse on a Mac.
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8:55 a.m.
On 9/23/22 08:59, Tim via users wrote:
On Fri, 2022-09-23 at 07:03 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
> the lack of a right mouse button is annoying
You don't have to use a Mac mouse on a Mac.
I have Fedora 36 running on a 2011 MacBook Air. I put an SSD in it and
replaced the Apple mouse with a Logitech bluetooth mouse. Works great as
a general-purpose laptop when I'm traveling light. As I remember it,
installation was straightforward, no quirks. (But that was a while back
and my memory is notoriously lousy. Upgrades since the initial install
have been painless, that much I do know for sure.) I'd say go for it.
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9:01 a.m.
Am 23.09.2022 um 14:59 schrieb Tim via users
<users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>:
On Fri, 2022-09-23 at 07:03 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
> the lack of a right mouse button is annoying
You don't have to use a Mac mouse on a Mac.
And even if you do use a Mac mouse: tapping at the upper right corner gives you a right
mouse button
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9:54 a.m.
Nice to know it can be done!....I've got it running on a System76 Darter
Pro 15-inch.....it's literally the best device I've ever owned...and with
Fedora running on it?...its Flawless!!
EGO II
On Sat, Sep 24, 2022, 9:55 AM David King <dave(a)daveking.com> wrote:
On 9/23/22 08:59, Tim via users wrote:
> On Fri, 2022-09-23 at 07:03 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
>> the lack of a right mouse button is annoying
> You don't have to use a Mac mouse on a Mac.
>
I have Fedora 36 running on a 2011 MacBook Air. I put an SSD in it and
replaced the Apple mouse with a Logitech bluetooth mouse. Works great as
a general-purpose laptop when I'm traveling light. As I remember it,
installation was straightforward, no quirks. (But that was a while back
and my memory is notoriously lousy. Upgrades since the initial install
have been painless, that much I do know for sure.) I'd say go for it.
--
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dave at daveking dot com
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10:18 a.m.
All,
I was able to install F29 from live media. I then upgraded a release at a
time upto F36.
Time consuming, yes but I wanted to make sure there were no issues with the
hardware.
F29 did not allow the boradcom wifi to work, this began working after the
upgrade to F30 and the addition of kmod-wl from rpm fusion.
F31-35 upgrades were uneventful.
Upgrade to F36 found wifi not working without running a depmod; modprobe wl
Thanks for all the input.
Terry
On Sat, Sep 24, 2022 at 10:55 AM Eddie O'Connor <eoconnor25(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Nice to know it can be done!....I've got it running on a System76
Darter
Pro 15-inch.....it's literally the best device I've ever owned...and with
Fedora running on it?...its Flawless!!
EGO II
On Sat, Sep 24, 2022, 9:55 AM David King <dave(a)daveking.com> wrote:
> On 9/23/22 08:59, Tim via users wrote:
> > On Fri, 2022-09-23 at 07:03 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
> >> the lack of a right mouse button is annoying
> > You don't have to use a Mac mouse on a Mac.
> >
>
> I have Fedora 36 running on a 2011 MacBook Air. I put an SSD in it and
> replaced the Apple mouse with a Logitech bluetooth mouse. Works great as
> a general-purpose laptop when I'm traveling light. As I remember it,
> installation was straightforward, no quirks. (But that was a while back
> and my memory is notoriously lousy. Upgrades since the initial install
> have been painless, that much I do know for sure.) I'd say go for it.
>
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> David King
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