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	linuxanswers.discussion, alt.os.linux, 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 08:05 +0200
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On 15/06/2022 20.41, Ant wrote:

> I have a 14 years old old MacBook Pro (15" A1260 model, unibody; 2.4 Ghz
> Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB (667 MHz) of DDR2 SDRAM, 200 GB HDD, NVIDIA
> GeForce 8600M GT (256 MB of VRAM), & Mac OS X (El Capitan v10.11.6))
> from early 2008. Its software are too old, unsupported, and too slow.

Maybe this was your thread at reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/FindMeADistro/comments/ut747l/distro_for_ancient_2008_macbook/

You have to keep in mind the number of Mac users ain't really big and 
even less of them uses Linux, so that why you will not get a best tested 
distribution suggested. I could add AntiX as a distro you can try out, 
you may want to run the distro from USB first, to see what it supports 
from default.

https://antixlinux.com/the-most-extensive-live-usb-on-the-planet/

I would suggest you do the same for which ever distro you want to test.

I would also recommend to look into replacing the 200GB HDD with at 
least a 250GB SSD, it would make the laptop a bit more responsive even 
if you only get 3Gb/s as max from the SSD.

-- 

  //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
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