MacBook Air
First Attempts at Fedora 8 on the MacBook Air
EPKPhoto — 23 February 2008 - 8:08pm
I recently took the crazy plunge of installing Fedora 8 on my new MacBook Air. It was an interesting experience given the utter absence of community documentation for running Linux on this brand new computer. I'm hoping to fill some of that void by offering some of my experiences here:
This article on the Mactel Linux website was the closest I could come to getting help on installing Fedora 8 on a MacBook Air:
http://www.mactel-linux.org/wiki/Fedora8OnMacBookSantaRosa
The Santa Rosa MacBook (MacBook 3,1) and the MacBook Air (MacBook Air 1,1) share many similarities. It turns out, however, that just enough things are different to cause several headaches.
