Re: [dev] How do you cope with OSX? (if at all)

On 18 March 2011 20:07, Anselm R Garbe <garbeam_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18 March 2011 13:02, Enno Boland (Gottox) <gottox_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm using MacPorts and XQuartz to run dwm on my air. It works ok, but
>> in the longterm I want to replace macos by linux.
>
> In my impression running Linux natively on Mac hardware sucks -- tried
> it on the MacBook Pro, but seems that Linux freezes every 2 hours due
> to overheating the hardware.
>
> Cheers,
> Anselm

I've been running Arch on my MBP 7,1 for the last ~6 months with no
overheating problems.

The only problems I do have are IO related due to possible firmware
bugs in the MCP89 chipset [1].

[1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15923
Received on Sun Apr 03 2011 - 03:20:43 CEST