[Cialug] press release

[Brandon Griffis]

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.

-Gamble

On 8/20/06, kristau <kristau at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/20/06, Kevin C. Smith <kevin at linuxsmith.com> wrote:
> > Keep us informed. I read sound had issues. I'm curious about the support
> > om MacBook Pro.
> > Did you use that boot camp I'm hearing about? Still they don't have
> > NVidia, which on
> > linux makes gaming less of an issue.
>
> Boot Camp is used to re-partition the hard drive as if you were going
> to install Windows, but you skip the creation of a drivers disk and
> cancel the install after the partition is created.  You then install
> Ubuntu on the new partition, but Grub fails due to the EFI "BIOS" so
> you have to install LILO.  Once LILO is installed, you then reboot
> back to OS X and install (in my case, re-install) rEFIt, an EFI boot
> utility that allows you to choose which partition you'd like to boot.
>
> If I have time between now and the next meeting, perhaps I can give a
> brief talk on the process and any other tweaks I've done.
>
> --
> Tired programmer
> Coding late into the night
> The core dump follows
>
> My GNUPG public key is available at http://www.kristau.net/public_key.asc
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