[LAU] [OT-ish]: Live Distro for Mac Book Pros

[rosea.grammostola]

On 04/17/2011 05:58 PM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I've done a first general workshop on Linux, FLOSS etc. as training
> conservatoire activity. A second one will be more of a a demo/tutorial
> with focus on audio/multimedia, I'd like it to also be hands-on. So my
> idea was to take a bunch of "audio-ready" live distro discs.
> Surprise surprise... most of the attendees will have a mac book pro, so
> workability on this platform is desired (sigh!)
>
> My two candidates are puredyne and AVLinux. The first in particular
> comes with Pure Data which I would like to use. Both worked without a
> glitch on my HP laptop (apart the fact I couldn't figure out how to get
> the 3rd level keyboard modifier in puredyne (AltGr on Italian keyboard)).
> On a mac laptop I was able to test puredyne halts and drops to a console
> while booting. AVLinux starts although wifi is not there. Probably I
> could go with AVLinux and put the Pure Data and required packages on a
> USB stick.
>
> I haven't tested it  but if wifi worked ok we might start with vanilla
> ubuntu and pull the desired packages, but I fear that would take away
> too much time, although instructive about the installation procedure.
>
> Anyway I'd be happy to hear more advice hints, as I have no real
> experience about running linux (live or installed) on macs.
>
> Thanks,
> Lorenzo.
>    
I would go for puredyne, it's made as live cd and it is used on Macs 
pretty often. Join their mailinglist and ask support there.

Good luck.

\r