On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 09:24:53AM +0200, Mathieu Baudier wrote:
If you already have the computer, I would recommend you to give a try to RHEL 6 Beta 2 and report to Red Hat any problem you have while they are still polishing their release.
Ah, wonderful idea! I'm grabbing it now, and will try to find detailed release notes to see if it has anything about this controller.
As per my other mail, I would not recommend CentOS 5 on a Mac laptop anyhow (because of the touchpad), although this is still what I mostly do when traveling.
I know PPC linux releases could support command-click as right click, so I can only assume CentOS 5 could as well. (But I wouldn't know where to start looking for this information beyond a naive google search.)
In any case, I recommend you to partition your disk as soon as you get the computer and leave says 10 / 20 GB for a Linux.
Already done--I installed Bootcamp and rEFIt almost as soon as I booted the thing. ;-) At the time (about May-June or so) I tried three different distro installers before googling and realizing that no kernel at the time supported the MBP7,1. (So I'm cautiously optimistic about the RHEL6 beta.)
--keith