On 18 March 2011 20:07, Anselm R Garbe <garb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 18 March 2011 13:02, Enno Boland (Gottox) <got...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm using MacPorts and XQuartz to run dwm on my air. It works ok, but >> in the longterm I want to replace macos by linux. > > In my impression running Linux natively on Mac hardware sucks -- tried > it on the MacBook Pro, but seems that Linux freezes every 2 hours due > to overheating the hardware. > > Cheers, > Anselm
I've been running Arch on my MBP 7,1 for the last ~6 months with no overheating problems. The only problems I do have are IO related due to possible firmware bugs in the MCP89 chipset [1]. [1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15923
