Sunday 18 November 2012

MacBook Pro 13" late 2011 running Fedora GNU/Linux 17 64it

When I 1st got my MacBook Pro (13" late 2011) I wasn't happy with its performance - The Spinning Beach Ball of Death. The bottleneck was it's 5,4k rpm HDD which I replaced with Seagate Momentus XT and kept the "slow" original as a Time Machine backup drive. In the same time I've doubled the RAM to 8GB and the machine became useable workstation.

This weekend I've replaced the HDD with some standard 7,2k I had and installed Fedora 17 64bit just because I can (wanted to see how hard it's gonna be) ;-).

I had some fun getting WiFi to work and this article was the answer - http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43

The rest was as easy as installing it on PC - no difference at all !

Here is a video of my Mac booting into Fedora 17 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7fdeope8c0

Monitor backlight control, keyboard backlight control and rest of hardware worked out-of-the-box.

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