2009 Mac Pro "Nehalem" 2.26Ghz good linux candidate?
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2009 Mac Pro "Nehalem" 2.26Ghz good linux candidate?
I'm trying to decide whether to install Linux on my 2009 Mac Pro, or whether it'd be better to get newer, non-Apple hardware..a machine that has a newer chipset, perhaps better suited to Linux.
Could my machine support a current distro?
If anyone have thoughts on this, I'd appreciate them. Current hardware spex below.
Thank you
2009 Mac Pro
Dual processor, 2.26Ghz "Nehalem"
16 GB RAM
Samsung EVO 850 SSD, 500GB
GeForce 120 graphics card.
I think the hardware should be supported. My laptop is a core 2 duo. It runs KDE fine. An i7 wouldn't break a sweat. Your graphics card drivers would be nouveau or legacy nvidia binary drivers.
That would be a great machine for almost anything! It's got two physical processors but each one has 4 cores, and each core is capable of hyperthreading, so it actually shows up as having 16 cores!
That would be a great machine for almost anything! It's got two physical processors but each one has 4 cores, and each core is capable of hyperthreading, so it actually shows up as having 16 cores!
That certainly is encouraging to hear...yeah, I have enjoyed having the 16 threads or cores for Blender Renders!
The hardware seems solid..I'd just hope that distros would still support it.
The hardware seems solid..I'd just hope that distros would still support it.
I'm sure you won't have any problems, I'm running Solaris 11.3 (the latest version) on an even older Mac Pro. And the Linux distros are generally far more forgiving than Solaris. Unless have a new MacBook Pro or something, you'd probably want to make it dual boot Linux & Mac OS X.
I'm sure you won't have any problems, I'm running Solaris 11.3 (the latest version) on an even older Mac Pro. And the Linux distros are generally far more forgiving than Solaris. Unless have a new MacBook Pro or something, you'd probably want to make it dual boot Linux & Mac OS X.
Do you have a new Mac?
I have the '09 Mac Pro and the slightly newer 2012 i5 Mac Book Pro.
The book can be my full time OS X machine until I'm ready to make it a linux book, then I'd probably have a drive with an install of El Capitan on it in case I ever need it to open files.
I appreciate your confirming that my hardware can handle current distros..that's pretty cool..takes a lot off my neck shopping for new hardware...I'm not very familiar with non-mac hardware.
I hope you haven't decided to abandon Mac OS X altogether... actually it's a certified UNIX distribution. but Linux is not. You can really do everything on the Mac that you can on Linux, and it has a lot nicer GUI! Plus it runs more commercial software like Microsoft Office.
I hope you haven't decided to abandon Mac OS X altogether... actually it's a certified UNIX distribution. but Linux is not. You can really do everything on the Mac that you can on Linux, and it has a lot nicer GUI! Plus it runs more commercial software like Microsoft Office.
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