Ubuntu 9.04 x64 livecd boots on macbook without changes.

[Stephen]

Agreed. but it was worth noting.

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Michael Butash<michael at butash.net> wrote:
> I'd rather stick with my dell's for half/quarter the price of the apple
> tax, boots everything happily including osx (well, hacked installs at
> least) without dealing with efi, and doesn't insult my intelligence
> calling my ubuntu cd windoze...
>
> -mb
>
>
> On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 08:25 -0700, Stephen wrote:
>> nope. and both fedora11 and ubuntu 9.04 find all the hardware... its
>> rather amusing.
>>
>> at least i know what i can do if ever stuck with a mac :-)
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Lisa Kachold<lisakachold at obnosis.com> wrote:
>> > Shirley you jest?
>> >
>> > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Stephen<cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> I was fooling about and it appears that 9.04 will boot on a macbook
>> >> pro natively without installing refit or anythign else. just holding
>> >> the option key.
>> >>
>> >> Interestingly it detects the cd as "windows"
>> >>
>> >> also fedora 11 livecd seems to work as well
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
>> >> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
>> >>
>> >> Stephen
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-- 
A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.

Stephen