Hi all, I recently got a brand new MacBook Pro, replacing one that is over 5.5 years old. I'm trying to think of something to do with the old laptop, and one idea I had was to put CentOS on it. After some initial struggles, I finally found this page, which tells how to tell the installer to find hfsplus-utils: https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=7327 Then I got to the point of configuring wifi, and of course being a MBP, it has a proprietary Broadcom interface. I followed the instructions on the wiki (https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless/Broadcom), but had some trouble with it coming back up after a sleep. That plus some other issues (it ran hot just running a browser, for example) are making me question whether this is a good idea. Does anyone else run a CentOS (not necessarily 7) on Apple hardware, particularly laptops (and not in a VM)? If so, any pointers on making life easier? TBH I don't really know exactly what I want to use it for yet, so suggestions there would be helpful too. --keith -- kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us
Use Oracles VM VirtualBox. On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 9:33 PM, Keith Keller < kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:> Hi all, > > I recently got a brand new MacBook Pro, replacing one that is over 5.5 > years old. I'm trying to think of something to do with the old laptop, > and one idea I had was to put CentOS on it. After some initial > struggles, I finally found this page, which tells how to tell the > installer to find hfsplus-utils: > > https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=7327 > > Then I got to the point of configuring wifi, and of course being a MBP, > it has a proprietary Broadcom interface. I followed the instructions on > the wiki (https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless/Broadcom), but > had some trouble with it coming back up after a sleep. That plus some > other issues (it ran hot just running a browser, for example) are making > me question whether this is a good idea. > > Does anyone else run a CentOS (not necessarily 7) on Apple hardware, > particularly laptops (and not in a VM)? If so, any pointers on making > life easier? TBH I don't really know exactly what I want to use it for > yet, so suggestions there would be helpful too. > > --keith > > > > -- > kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >-- ----------------- Hal Wigoda Chicago
This doesn't really help with your problem, but to address the specific question below: I run CentOS 7, and previously 6, on a Mac Pro (MacPro4,1). My experience has been good. I haven't bothered running anything to read hfs volumes as I'm not dual-booting it. I have a separate MacBook Pro machine for my OS X needs. We run mostly CentOS for servers, but on the desktop side of things we are fairly Mac heavy. I wanted something decent to run a CentOS desktop and this hardware was available at the time.> On Sep 13, 2015, at 19:33, Keith Keller <kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote: > > Does anyone else run a CentOS (not necessarily 7) on Apple hardware, > particularly laptops (and not in a VM)? If so, any pointers on making > life easier?
On 2015-09-14, Hal Wigoda wrote:> Use Oracles VM VirtualBox.Well, I explicitly don't want to do that, since it uses even more resources than OS X by itself. Having linux run on the bare metal without OS X should be much more efficient.> On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 9:33 PM, Keith Keller wrote: >> Then I got to the point of configuring wifi, and of course being a MBP, >> it has a proprietary Broadcom interface. I followed the instructions on >> the wiki (https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless/Broadcom), but >> had some trouble with it coming back up after a sleep. That plus some >> other issues (it ran hot just running a browser, for example) are making >> me question whether this is a good idea.As sometimes happens, I wrote too soon. I think the wifi issue may have been a misconfiguration on my part, and so far Firefox has been fine. It could have been a transient issue that I unintentionally resolved. I was really surprised to see that streaming video and audio worked without having to do anything. And even KDE has not been too much of a dog so far, though I'm still thinking to install something like fluxbox or blackbox. I actually haven't had a linux desktop in a long time so I'm very much out of practice. So far, after the first hiccups, CentOS 7 has been much faster on the old MBP than OS X is. I'm optimistic that I can find a use for it, even if it's just having a laptop I can use if my family wants the new MBP. --keith -- kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us
> Does anyone else run a CentOS (not necessarily 7) on Apple hardware, > particularly laptops (and not in a VM)? If so, any pointers on making > life easier? TBH I don't really know exactly what I want to use it for > yet, so suggestions there would be helpful too. > > --keithHi, I tried CentOS on a late 2008 MB, but quickly uninstalled it due to wifi/ethernet issues. I switched to Fedora 22 which installed nicely. I had to fiddle a bit for wifi, but I don't recall the necessary steps... q