[Malvern] Mac Mini?

[Richard Smedley]

On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 21:28 +0100, Phil Ironside wrote: 
> I know Phil has a lot of experience with putting Linux
> > on a Mac laptop but has anyone done it on a Mini? 
> 
> Andy Dixon has put linux on one I think, but it should not be any different than the 
> laptop, and now they are intel based there will be a lot more support for things - 
> for instance Flash will work in Firefox properly.

Chris,

I'm sending this from one now - a dual core 1.67GHz
running Debian Unstable and driving a 22in widescreen
monitor. It makes a nice unobtrusive, and relatively
low power-consumption desktop for web work.

I used to have a G4 iBook, and hardware support was
very good in Debian (& Ubuntu and Gentoo), once you'd
tweaked a bit, but the Intel Macs work out-of-the-box. [1]

3D graphics with no kernel blob is great - which is why
my current laptop also has Intel graphics :)

- Richard
[catching up on e-mails after time away]

[1] Provided your distro installs the Intel graphics drivers.


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