Let me begin with a short introduction to myself. I am a swedish guy that has worked with computers for many years. As a matter of fact, I wrote my first program in around 1976. I use both Windows and Mac-powered computers daily. I have tried out many variants of Linux over the years, but there has …

Well first of all: Welcome to Elive and the forum in particular. I'll try to catch your "niggles" there where I can. 1.- On the Acer you apparently tried to run Beta 32bit. To get that using a tad less of RAM you could disable "cairo-dock" as it uses quite a bit by itself. The dock can be replac…

First of all a warm welcome to our our community! 2nd: Thanks for your extended introduction, this is rare, highly appreciated - tack se mycket :grin: For the MacBook - I personally stay away from calling it old; this is just the Apple's suggestion. On mine (late2009) runs with triple boot Cata…

Thanks Rebel450! Yes, I would very much like to understand a) how you got ALL hardware working (as I mentioned, my camera doesn't work), and b) How I would go about getting a dual or, as in your case, triple-boot. Running Snowleopard would be great! I forgot to mention that both machines already …

Thanks a lot triantares! Yes, it was the 32-bit Beta I installed on the Acer. Will try the older version one of these days. I would like to point out however, that it is not lack of RAM that makes the Acer feel sluggish. When running nothing but the standard desktop and a browser such as Chromium, I…

[image] hgpuke: t is not lack of RAM that makes the Acer feel sluggish True, there's more to it than that. Believe me, that Acer will fly using Stable albeit the advice to use a an SSD is extremely sound. It makes an enormous speed difference. I've got Stable running on an old (2009) Thinkp…

[image] TheTechRobo: to make [the fans] run quieter . mhm, no - I suspect here another (typical) issue. Debian does not support the fan control on certain Mac hardware. He mentioned, he installed a SSD; sometimes the temp sensor from the former Mac HD is missing therefore - on the other ha…

[image] hgpuke: as I mentioned, my camera doesn't work well.... at a glance I got this solution handy only - but be aware: it is meant for Ubuntu - it should also work on debian (hopefully) You can give it a try - or at least it makes you understand which step is neccessary... usually I do…

[image] hgpuke: But with Win XP it can. BTW, just for the fun of it. You can get a linux/unix like experience with XP (it'll still be a security disaster as OS though, if you go on the web) ---- install "litestep" as a window-manager, it has virtual desktops and all. :smiley14: …

Hmm, that WOULD have been a way forward if I had a MacOS partition left om the SSD. But I don't. I had troubles with getting MacOS to work well, so I decided to scrap it altogether. However, if you have information that would allow me to find a working copy of, say, Snowleopard, I would most certain…

I cannot confirm that the fan noise is different in MacOS compared to Elive, simply for the reason that I no longer have MacOS installed. Sorry. However, what I can say is that Elive seem to manage the fan, and that it knows what the CPU temperature is. So the fan noise is not constant, it varies de…