Fedora 17

[Henrik Frisk]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Phil Dobbin <bukowskiscat at gmail.com> wrote:
> As has been mentioned, I'd be sceptical about putting Linux on my
> Macbook Pro although my wife ran Ubuntu for a while with no ill effects
> on her Macbook but she was mainly using it for surfing, email, that sort
> of thing but switched back to Mac in the end.

I was going to not comment on this since it's a bit off topic. I've
been running Linux on this machine all along and haven't had any
issues with it before.  Why would hardware that ran Fedora 11-13
beautifully suddenly not be good for Fedora 17 (unless it's too slow
obviously but a too slow computer is too slow regardless of the
manufacturer)? I've run Linux on Macs for more than ten years now and
it was a bit of a struggle with the PowerPC processors but since they
switched to Intel it's worked fine. Fact is, prior to this machine I
had 2 dell laptops and as far as running Linux there's no difference
and the hardware on this particular computer is superior compared to
the two dells I've had. This is obviously not a general claim though.

Thank you all for the tips. I'll try to switch to xfce and see what
that does. Then I'll try the optimasation tips suggested to me.

Thanks!

/Henrik