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

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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.
> 
> I am thinking about replacing them with Linux, but which one would be
> suitable for it? I still want basic GUI like web browsing. I remember
> trying doing the same for an old PowerBook G4, but I couldn't get its
> wifi to work with various Linux installations. I hope this won't happen
> again with it.
> 
I don't have any personal experience w/ this; I just read things.

Is your plan to install the linux to the hdd, or just run it live?  I'll 
assume you want to install it, because that is more conventional, and 
also you will have more 'breathing room' than just doing everything live.

Personally I like to 'evaluate' things by running an .iso live, so the 
majority of my experience is with live, which in your situation has 
advantages to check out a number of live distro/s before installing.

My preferred method of running live distro/s is using a Ventoy USB 
stick, because I can put some number on a 16 or 32G stick.  Also Ventoy 
lends itself to faster 'putting on' and 'taking off' of .iso/s to test. 
You are posting here w/ linux, so I assume you can use the linux tools 
to make a Ventoy USB, then save some .iso/s to hdd and pick some to 
write to the Ventoy.

Your 2G of ram is enough to boot whichever linux you want, but not 
necessarily give you a lot of room to be wasting ram on a bloated system 
w/ a lot of browser window/tabs open.

I think the Mac would need some help w/ the boot, such as refind.

> Newsgroups: linuxanswers.discussion ,alt.os.linux, alt.linux, alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions

You are x-posting your msg to various groups I don't read; and I don't 
post to groups I don't read so I'm stripping all of the groups for my 
reply except aol.  If you xpost, you are obligated to read every group 
you post to.


-- 
Mike Easter

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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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