LXLE and Mac? - LXLE OS Help and Support Threads on LXLE forums

Jakob

Does anyone have any experience with installing and running lxle on Mac laptops?
I'm offering anyone I know to revive their old pc's with lxle - but I don't have any experience with Mac's yet ... and I would really like to not f**k up my friends pc's :)

Jakob

I see that lxle got a great review on Mac: http://lowendmac.com/2014/24-hours-with-linux-lxle-a-review/
EDIT: Ok, I was too sloppy just skimming and jumping to the conclusion and now I see that this review is not about running lxle on a Mac.

kirk_dunkirk

Not real familiar with it but I hear there are more hoops to jump through because the startup routine on Macs is very different. (I think this applies to some (non mac) machines running Windows 8.1 too)

colin

Try searching for Ubuntu on Mac (e.g. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ubuntu+on+mac -- since LXLE is based on Lubuntu, which is based on Ubuntu); looks like some possible leads there. I imagine it needs to be an Intel-powered Mac, not Power PC.

Jakob

Thanks, I'm looking into that. What I primarily wanted to know here was if anyone have any experience with LXLE and Mac. And you are right: It'll have to be Intel-Macs. There is no PPC version of LXLE. I just got an old Mac with PPC though - so that one will get Lubuntu or Debian :)

Jakob

Seems that Lubuntu 14 is pretty buggy. Debian it is :)
If anyone else than me wants to install Linux on PPC's, here is a couple of great blogs about the topic.
http://powerpcliberation.blogspot.ca/2013/07/quick-and-dirty-light-and-fast.html
http://powerpcliberation.blogspot.ca/2013/07/debians-path-is-already-lit-by-luddite.html

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