Got my hands on a MacBook Pro, nice hardware :).
I don't really like the wireless card,
intel wireless would be better,
and I would prefer Intel to nvidia gfx,
but the rest is OK.
The config is very stable running Karmic or Lucid.
Started by using Lucid 32 bit with pae kernel,
and moved to the 64 bit in April, and works great also.
Yesterday night found some time to write up:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro5-5/Lucid
Seems pretty easy, and works great.
Implementing a killswitch when your VPN connection drops on Ubuntu
VPN setup on ubuntu I setup the VPN in these 2 modes in Ubuntu 24.04, 25.04, 25.10, screen shoots are from 25.10. Using only ubuntu pre pac...
-
Check here how to flash the rom https://wiki.mrchromebox.tech/Firmware_Write_Protect Check here to see if you should use Legacy or UEFI ROM ... -
sudo apt-get install schroot sudo mkdir /home/chroot (or another location) sudo mkdir /home/chroot/jaunty-32-bit (or another location) sudo ... -
New related post Ubuntu 12.04 on Lenovo Q150 with OCZ SSD and 4Gb of Memory . The Lenovo Q150 comes Atom D510 and the ...