<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jun 12, 2012, at 4:50 PM, Geoffrey Myers wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 06/12/2012 03:32 PM, Rich Faulkner wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/features/">http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/features/</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I wonder how Mint 13 (Maya) with MATE would run on this? Think they<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">would let me try live booting it over at Fry's? (Oh, yeah...they don't<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">know what Mint is do they?)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Actually, way more than I would spend...did just get new h/w for a<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">desktop (Intel Sandy Bridge). Looking forward to my new system and may<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">even put Maya on that.<br></blockquote><br>I don't think you can live boot linux on a mac book. At least it <br>wouldn't work on my mine when I first got it.<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">RinL<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Ale mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>I have the latest (well, latest before WWDC announcement) generation 11-inch MacBook Air and I have a live USB image of Ubuntu 12.04 that works on it without issue (it actually works 100% out of the box). I've also got it running on a first generation aluminum body MacBook Pro at work, no issues there either.<br><div>
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