[ale] Mac switcher ... to Ubuntu

Dan Lambert danlambert at bellsouth.net
Fri Jul 28 13:40:45 EDT 2006


Actually, it was the guy (John??) that rode his motorcycle to the 
meeting. Maybe he'll see this and pipe up.

Chris was working on a desktop install.

Dan

KingBahamut wrote:

> I cant remember.
>
> On 7/28/06, *Dan Lambert* <danlambert at bellsouth.net 
> <mailto:danlambert at bellsouth.net>> wrote:
>
>     Was it Chris who was doing Ubuntu on a Mac?
>
>     Dan
>
>     KingBahamut wrote:
>
>     > Eric, he was a lister. Cant remember name right off, Dan Lambert, do
>     > you remember? Wheres Paul Cartwright, Im sure he does.
>     >
>     >
>     > On 7/28/06, *Eric VanWieren* <evanwieren at gmail.com
>     <mailto:evanwieren at gmail.com>
>     > <mailto:evanwieren at gmail.com <mailto:evanwieren at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     So,
>     >
>     >     Was he running it under parallels, or was he running it natively
>     >     as his os. If he has had sucess I would love to hear what issues
>     >     he had and if everything is working.
>     >
>     >     Might be a good meeting topic.
>     >
>     >     Thanks,
>     >
>     >     Eric
>     >
>     >
>     >     On 7/28/06, *KingBahamut* < gwosbahamut at gmail.com
>     <mailto:gwosbahamut at gmail.com>
>     >     <mailto:gwosbahamut at gmail.com
>     <mailto:gwosbahamut at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >         Middle of next month. More Pizza, Beer, and Ubuntu. =)
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >         On 7/28/06, *Dan Lambert* < danlambert at bellsouth.net
>     <mailto:danlambert at bellsouth.net>
>     >         <mailto:danlambert at bellsouth.net
>     <mailto:danlambert at bellsouth.net>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >             Speaking of which, Bill, when are we looking at
>     having our
>     >             next
>     >             get-together for the Ubuntu LUG?
>     >
>     >             Dan
>     >
>     >             KingBahamut wrote:
>     >
>     >> A member of my little ubuntu user group was running
>     >             xubuntu quite
>     >> successfully on his macbook during the meeting.
>     >>
>     >> On 7/28/06, *Katherine Villyard* < villyard at comcast.net
>     <mailto:villyard at comcast.net>
>     >             <mailto:villyard at comcast.net
>     <mailto:villyard at comcast.net>>
>     >> <mailto: villyard at comcast.net <mailto:villyard at comcast.net>
>     >             <mailto: villyard at comcast.net
>     <mailto:villyard at comcast.net>>>> wrote:
>     >>
>     >>     Eric VanWieren wrote:
>     >>
>     >>     > I could go on, but what I am interested in is
>     >             putting Linux
>     >>     straight
>     >>     > onto my mac that I have now. For all my searching,
>     >             I have not
>     >>     read about
>     >>     > any of the pains that anyone has had to go through
>     >             in order to put
>     >>     > Ubuntu or Fedora on a MacbookPro. Unfortunately,
>     >             due to work, I
>     >>     cannot
>     >>     > afford to be without my laptop for 2 weeks while I
>     >             try to work
>     >>     out all
>     >>     > of the bugs of installing linux on my mac.
>     >>
>     >>     Ubuntu installed happily on my old G4 tower.  I've
>     >             never tried a
>     >>     Macbook
>     >>     Pro.
>     >>
>     >>
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