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I have a late 2013 Retina MBP. 13.10 is working for me. I used rEFIt. I had to disable ncq too. No iSight support yet. No hotplugging of Thunderbolt Devices. Audio works, but speakers are...

I have a MacBookPro6,1. The hardware is quite similar to the MacBookPro6,2. The 6,2 is the 15" version. There are only a few differneces in Graphics, etc. when you look at the specs. I've run...

I've created a custom vinyl decal for my laptop a while ago.

I have some extras that I'd be happy to share a folks in the community.

This is what it looks like illuminated.
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I also...

I'm getting considerable wait time when installing packages or anything requiring disk access. When I boot, the system acts incredibly sluggish. indicator-multiload shows me some cpu wait time. So...

Hi Mike

I've got a MacBookPro 6,1 that I run Ubuntu on (the 17" version of the 6,2)

1) Is rEFIt safe to use on my Mac?
- Been working great for me on 3 different Macs for me over the years.
...

The Macbook Pro was just better hardware when I bought

When I bought my current laptop, the other 17" laptops were about an inch thicker, hotter, louder, 1080p vs 1200p, consumed more power...

Well, I got it fixed. My guess was that grub somehow got corrupted.

A grub-install --force got me back in working condition from a LiveCD...

I run Ubuntu 12.04 on my MacBookPro6,1 (17" 2010 model).

Today I saw that I had some updates waiting for me. I applied them and finshed the day. It looked like there was a kernel update and it...

I couldn't get the stock 12.04 iso to boot on my MacBookPro6,1 I had to use the amd64+mac iso from the day just before launch. I think you can still find links to it in the forums. I'm still...

My MacBookPro6,1 wouldn't boot either. I've got that method and also using the amd64+mac iso to boot.

I did have to download the amd64+mac torrent on release day though to get it to boot on Apple's Hybrid monstrosity of bootloading.

ubuntu-12.04-desktop-amd64+mac.iso.torrent

I did have to download the amd64+mac torrent on release day though to get it to boot on Apple's Hybrid monstrosity of bootloading.

I've got a mbp6,1 and I'm running 12.04 just fine. the 6,1 is the 17" version of the 6,2

I'd say 12.04 definitely.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro6-2/Precise

I'm trying to use byobu a terminal multiplexer with Ubuntu 12.04 running Unity.

One of the key combinations (split vertically) is shift + f2
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Byobu

Unity...

I misspoke, I did do a fresh install next to my 10.10 partition.
My 10.10

I have a bunch of read arg fails in my syslog after upgrading to 12.04

...
[ 313.771886] applesmc: FS! : read arg fail
[ 318.824256] applesmc: FS! : read arg fail
[ 323.879707] applesmc: FS!...

Same here.

So you don't have an ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub file?

Try github's tutorial on generating keys (just the keygen parts).
http://help.github.com/linux-set-up-git/

I used to use Beagle, which worked pretty well. Haven't bothered with it in a year or so since I've started using the command line more.

I spend 99.9% of my time on my MacbookPro in Linux. I use it at work and at home. I've been using Ubuntu as my primary OS for years now and I'm really happy with it. (maybe a little grumpy still...

I use:

ssh-copy-id user@machine

I have a 6,2 as well.

That was the fix when it first came out too. There are 2 GPUs in it. The embedded Intel one and the Nvidia Discrete one. The code fix had something to do with...

What version of Macbook Pro do you have?

There is some good info that you definitely need to read:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro

Once you figure out which version you have, most...

I've got the glass/glossy version.

I've never done anything with the color profiles. Still got OSX going, How do I get the color profile?

I have a mbp 6,1 and don't use nvidia_bl_dkms. I use mbp_nvidia_bl
sudo apt-get install mbp-nvidia-bl-dkms

the 6,1 is similar to the 6,2:...