I have a Dell Precision M70. Everything seems well supported in Linux. The Kororra boot CD loaded XGL and the Intel Pro Wireless card (upgrade option a must). It's a pretty beefy system, beating out most of the XPS models. I would highly recommend it.
<br><br>-Gamble<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/20/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">kristau</b> <<a href="mailto:kristau@gmail.com">kristau@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 8/20/06, Kevin C. Smith <<a href="mailto:kevin@linuxsmith.com">kevin@linuxsmith.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Keep us informed. I read sound had issues. I'm curious about the support<br>> om MacBook Pro.<br>> Did you use that boot camp I'm hearing about? Still they don't have
<br>> NVidia, which on<br>> linux makes gaming less of an issue.<br><br>Boot Camp is used to re-partition the hard drive as if you were going<br>to install Windows, but you skip the creation of a drivers disk and<br>
cancel the install after the partition is created. You then install<br>Ubuntu on the new partition, but Grub fails due to the EFI "BIOS" so<br>you have to install LILO. Once LILO is installed, you then reboot<br>
back to OS X and install (in my case, re-install) rEFIt, an EFI boot<br>utility that allows you to choose which partition you'd like to boot.<br><br>If I have time between now and the next meeting, perhaps I can give a<br>
brief talk on the process and any other tweaks I've done.<br><br>--<br>Tired programmer<br>Coding late into the night<br>The core dump follows<br><br>My GNUPG public key is available at <a href="http://www.kristau.net/public_key.asc">
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