On 2015-09-14, Hal Wigoda wrote: > Use Oracles VM VirtualBox. Well, I explicitly don't want to do that, since it uses even more resources than OS X by itself. Having linux run on the bare metal without OS X should be much more efficient. > On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 9:33 PM, Keith Keller wrote: >> Then I got to the point of configuring wifi, and of course being a MBP, >> it has a proprietary Broadcom interface. I followed the instructions on >> the wiki (https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless/Broadcom), but >> had some trouble with it coming back up after a sleep. That plus some >> other issues (it ran hot just running a browser, for example) are making >> me question whether this is a good idea. As sometimes happens, I wrote too soon. I think the wifi issue may have been a misconfiguration on my part, and so far Firefox has been fine. It could have been a transient issue that I unintentionally resolved. I was really surprised to see that streaming video and audio worked without having to do anything. And even KDE has not been too much of a dog so far, though I'm still thinking to install something like fluxbox or blackbox. I actually haven't had a linux desktop in a long time so I'm very much out of practice. So far, after the first hiccups, CentOS 7 has been much faster on the old MBP than OS X is. I'm optimistic that I can find a use for it, even if it's just having a laptop I can use if my family wants the new MBP. --keith -- kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us