Re: What's the best low-end supported Linux to use in a very old 2008 MacBook Pro?

From	"J.O. Aho" <user@example.net>
Newsgroups	alt.os.linux, linuxanswers.discussion, alt.linux, alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject	Re: What's the best low-end supported Linux to use in a very old 2008 MacBook Pro?
Date	2022-06-16 07:54 +0200
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On 15/06/2022 22.21, Mike Easter wrote:
> Ant wrote:
>> I remember trying doing the same for an old PowerBook G4, but I
>> couldn't get its wifi to work with various Linux installations.
> The easiest way to solve wifi problems for me is to hook up to temporary 
> ethernet to get connectivity.  Then I'm able to post info to a newsgroup 
> and get some help getting my wifi situation straightened out.
> 
> Also, if I'm connected it is easier to dl tools or packages to solve the 
> problem.

Back in the days with PowerPC Mac's, there was issues with some apple 
hardware not supported and only a limited amount of Macs was supported 
by distros like Yellow Dog. A half hour install tended to take a whole day.

Nowadays you have better support for Mac, but you should be a bit 
hesitant to install Linux bare metal on a M1/M2 apple, there are some 
issues with those.

> Personally I like to use inxi -Nn to get info about my network 
> devices and drivers, and some distro/s have inxi installed by default 
> and some have it in their repo/s.

Not all distros has inxi, but then lshw is available which I think is 
great if you need a lot of information, otherwise lspci tend to give 
enough information to the further if there is an issues with wifi.

-- 

  //Aho

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What's the best low-end supported Linux to use in a very old 2008 MacBook Pro? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2022-06-15 13:41 -0500
  Re: What's the best low-end supported Linux to use in a very old 2008 MacBook Pro? Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2022-06-15 13:08 -0700
    Re: What's the best low-end supported Linux to use in a very old 2008 MacBook Pro? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2022-06-15 18:55 -0500
      Re: What's the best low-end supported Linux to use in a very old 2008 MacBook Pro? "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2022-06-15 20:28 -0400
        Re: What's the best low-end supported Linux to use in a very old 2008 MacBook Pro? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2022-06-15 19:44 -0500
          Re: What's the best low-end supported Linux to use in a very old 2008 MacBook Pro? "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2022-06-15 20:46 -0400
          Re: What's the best low-end supported Linux to use in a very old 2008 MacBook Pro? Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be> - 2022-06-16 12:38 +0200
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  Re: What's the best low-end supported Linux to use in a very old 2008 MacBook Pro? Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2022-06-15 13:21 -0700
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