Fedora on Mactel?

Jurgen Kramer gtm.kramer at inter.nl.net
Sun Jun 18 15:26:16 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 07:25 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 15:45 -0700, Michael wrote:
> > Our company is upgrading computers for our developers and we want to buy 
> > the new Intel-based iMac systems so that developers can test programs in 
> > Linux, Windows, and Mac OS. I've heard that Core 6 will support the 
> > Mactel. Is this true and if so what level of support will it have? Will 
> > it be as easy to install and run as Fedora is on a normal PC? Will there 
> > be any gotchas that should make me reconsider my plans to purchase the 
> > iMac computers? Thanks.
> ----
> I believe that with Apple's 'beta' BootCamp, you could install FC-5 as
> well as Windows and OSX.
> 
FC5 won't install because it does not like the Apple partition table
(GPT).

I just installed the current FC6's rawhide on my MacBook. It works
fairly well but not everything works out of the box just jet (e.g.
wireless). I filed a couple of bugs, hope they get fixed before the
final FC6.

Jurgen





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