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Mac Mini + Linux
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Hillsboro, Oregon
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I just booted Gentoo livecd on my Mac Mini. Results are very promising, all the hardware seems to be recognized.
Full details are at http://krussell.com/mini.
Kevin
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Richmond,Va
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Thanks for the pics of the power supply. I have been wondering what it looked like.
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Hillsboro, Oregon
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I installed Ubuntu Linux on my Mini with no problems. It appears to work great, I am posting this message using firefox on Linux on the Mini.
Kevin
http://krussell.com/mini
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: May 2004
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Glad that Linux is working so well on the mini.
Krussel, have you had enough time with the mini to evaluate it as your primary machine?
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: London, UK
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krussell: I use Ubuntu on PC but would love a mac mini - have you got mplayer installed yet? I hear some video codecs wont work on the mac?
Also, if compiling from source would most things work or do they have to be PPC specific?
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Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Olympia, WA
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I'm sorry to see that krussell has sold his Mac mini, but I can't help but feel like his expectations were a little high. Buying brand new bleeding edge hardware, and expecting Linux to run on it like butter is overly optimistic. I put Ubuntu on my fairly new AMD64 box, and ALSA was broke, and X wouldn't even start! I had a PC laptop that never had any sort of power management support in Linux, so the fan was always on 100%, and it would run out of batteries in about 45 minutes.. It lasted 3 1/2 hours in Windows.
So it shouldn't be a surprise that sound doesn't work, or the fan is loud, etc. That's the price we pay for an open source OS at this point. I agree very much with some of the comment posters on krussell's blog, in suggesting older hardware that runs cool by today's standards, and is virtually guaranteed to be supported by the Linux kernel.
So I'm sorry it didn't work out for you, but thanks for the insights, and the early reports. (and do the firmware hack on your ibooks so that you can do spanning/mirroring at high resolutions!)
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Aiken, South Carolina, USA
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is there any sound under ubuntu at all, or is it just some models?
I was thinking about installing it on my ibook.
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