Re: [CentOS] OT: linux desktop market share more than 1%

On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 06:53:04PM -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote:

Ok. Here is a fairly basic Mac Pro:

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Why are we talking about this? Isn't this the CentOS mailing list?

ObOnTopic: does anybody know if CentOS supports the MacBookPro7,1 model with the funky SATA controller? It's nontrivial to find any hard information about even kernel support, much less whether a given distro has included any of the relevant patches in its kernel. I don't mind OS X, but for some purposes I really prefer a linux-based desktop.

Here's the kernel bug report. It's not clear whether the bug fix reported is planned to be permanent or not:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15923

--keith