Ubuntu 10.04 - anyone else trying it out?

smokeyjjoseph

ummm how do i install mac4lin?

fermi

smokeyjjoseph wrote: »

ummm how do i install mac4lin?

DL the version 1.0 files.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac4lin/files/

Read the pdf documentation for instructions.

If you want to try it, then may be best to skip the items that require root permission at first; e.g. gdm theme, boot theme, etc....

smokeyjjoseph

I think as soon as the final release comes out I will download and reinstall rather than upgrade, but feeling very happy i decided to give it a try!

smokeyjjoseph

thank you fermi!

jbreckmckye

Looking forward to trying out the new boot optimizations.

S0litaire

boot time is excelent on my laptop.
It's 31 seconds from after the POST to the working desktop.
my old laptop was around 1m 20s from the same point to the desktop!

I'm hoping to get a ssd later in the year so boot times could drop to 15s - 20s :D

fermi

S0litaire wrote: »

boot time is excelent on my laptop.
It's 31 seconds from after the POST to the working desktop.
my old laptop was around 1m 20s from the same point to the desktop!

Would like to try that on this laptop, but ubuntu does not like the onboard wireless card.

Not even via ndiswrapper. Whereas with Mandriva it works. Shame really. :undecided

John_Gray

fermi wrote: »

Would like to try that on this laptop, but ubuntu does not like the onboard wireless card.

I think I've tried several different wireless cards (ZyXEL x 2, Edimax x 3, plus the ancient inbuilt 11b card in the old laptop), since I first started with 8.04 and none can be made to work. Maybe Lascivious Lynx (?) 10.04 will have better wireless support, or indeed, any that works for me! Can't fault the instantaneous wired ethernet connection, though...

Taffybiker

John_Gray wrote: »

I think I've tried several different wireless cards (ZyXEL x 2, Edimax x 3, plus the ancient inbuilt 11b card in the old laptop), since I first started with 8.04 and none can be made to work. Maybe Lascivious Lynx (?) 10.04 will have better wireless support, or indeed, any that works for me! Can't fault the instantaneous wired ethernet connection, though...

I find that quite strange. Because of a couple of issues with Ubuntu 9.04 I moved to Mint. I plugged in an old Linksys 802.11b card to my laptop and it fired straight up without any problem at all.

fermi

Taffybiker wrote: »

I find that quite strange. Because of a couple of issues with Ubuntu 9.04 I moved to Mint. I plugged in an old Linksys 802.11b card to my laptop and it fired straight up without any problem at all.

Some work out of the box. Some don't.

Some can be made to work with effort. Some can't.

Wireless support on Linux is still very random at times.