[colug-432] Linux on Mac

[tom]

On 03/27/2017 06:07 PM, Peter King wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 12:09:38PM -0500, tom wrote:
>
>> Was given circa 2013 MacBook 13" Considering installing Linux on it. Any
>> thoughts?
> I've converted two MacBooks to run Linux (both running gentoo); they work
> just fine, without even much tweaking, at least once you crack the boot
> setup -- one boots from bare-metal, the other uses a bootloader -- Apples
> are popular so their hardware tends to be supported.
>
>> I use Audio Recorder on Linux Mint to do simple recordings of practice
>> sessions. We just record new material and send people home with that so
>> they can learn and practice material at home. Audacity is way too
>> complex for that. The Mac has Garage Band which is too complex as well
>> for what I am doing. Is there a simple sound recorder for Mac?
> If it comes to it, you can install brew on a Mac and then compile up any
> number of programs -- you can even run ecasound, which is a command-line
> audio recorder/processor that is capable of great depth but also can be
> used for very simple recording.
>
> Once you replace MacOS with some flavour of Linux, you have much more by
> way of choices and freedom with how to interact with your hardware.  Give
> me that any day, rather than the Walled Garden that Apple tries to trap
> you in.  (You can even do things like boot to the command-line *without*
> loading the whole graphics layer, which is damn near impossible under
> MacOS, for No Good Reason.)  And you can control your software, too,
> rather than having some Cupertino hack decide what runs on your machine.
>
> YMMV.
>
>
>
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Do you know of a source for User and Service Manuals for Macs? Hopefully 
a free PDF download. My current machines are Dell, and service/repair 
manuals are free for the asking in download from Dell. Even with ancient 
PII stuff.

Tom
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