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Which Linux distribution that is more suitable for intel and why?

Which Linux distribution provides the best peformance for an Intel Mac?

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    That depends on what you mean with best performance. You could mean best performance by using the best drivers for your computer, or best performance by using a lightweight distribution. Graphics card drivers is probably what will give you most problems/possibilities when it comes to performance. This depends on what kind of Mac you have. You'll need to check your graphics card and then look for a distro that includes them from start or where you can easily install them. My guess here is that Fedora or Ubuntu might be the easier ones to use. If you are looking for a lightweight distro instead, I personally would go with crunchbang linux. It's based of Debian and features a lightweight window manager and comes without all those programs you never use. Specific drivers can be installed in almost any distribution, with more or less effort. I'd suggest that you try a linux distro for a month or two, then install another, then another, until you find something you really like. If you have quite a new Mac, performance won't be an issue with any distro.

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Most would run lighter than OS X, but Linux Mint or Ubuntu run pretty well out of the box on Apple hardware and have a specific installation procedure as part of a standard install for such hardware (as it might when replacing Windows, etc.).

Joseph Marhee

I have been dual booting an old MacBook Pro 5,5 for just over a year. Here are my experiences. I have not measured per se, it is just a feeling that when running on OS X, off the AC supply, the battery lasts a tad longer than on Debian (I use testing/unstable). Installation was a simple following the instructions on the Debian wiki page for MacBook Pro. In case of a dirty power off, the Debian goes to some day in 2001 January.  The date also gets set to Jan 2001 in Debian if I boot into OS X and reboot into Debian.  I think the drivers need to be built for the kernel.  I have not bothered looking into any of these since I rarely use OS X or do an unclean power off. One thing I do not understand is, CPU #1 does not boot every time I boot.  So every time I see that line on the screen at boot time, I press Ctrl + Alt + Del. GNOME 3 brings the machine to a grind by consuming lots of memory.  I moved to XFCE, which runs fine in the 4G memory. These experiences might be limited to just me.  I don't know if others face similar things (on Debian).  None of the above is a show stopper for me, so I have not dug any deeper.  I recommend visiting the IRC channels, mailing lists or wiki pages of the distributions you want to check out. Or, if you have been using any distribution for long enough that you can find your way in it, go ahead and install that distribution.  I chose Debian because of this reason.

Venkatesh Pitta

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