Re: Fedora on Macs, removing the release criterion

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2016-11-18 19:37 GMT+01:00 Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Options:
> 1. Keep the mactel-boot stuff (pretty but weird), and write up test
> cases specifically to account for the weirdness in particular how to
> reset the state of the computer so it's possible to do clean installs.
> There are a couple of ways to do this. Burden is on Mac testers.
>
> 2. Explore treating Macs like any other kind of EFI computer, which
> means doing no better than Ubuntu or openSUSE where I think they
> largely recommend using rEFInd for their bootmanager instead of GRUB.
> So there's this connotation of being handed off to some other project
> out of the gate. Easier to test, but puts more burden on all Mac
> users.
>
> 3. Apple has hypervisor.framework which is a user space hypervisor
> rather than kernel extension based; and might be a suitable way of
> getting Fedora running on macOS, without depending on VirtualBox.
> Here's a write up on CoreOS using it. I understand Docker is using it
> also.
>
> https://deis.com/blog/2015/get-started-coreos-os-x/
>
> If there's enough interest, 1 & 3 are possible. If it's a case of
> interest being on life support then only 1 is possible which probably
> eventually slides back to 2, where we've been before.
>
>

I would prefer 1 and I will try to to test the install experience in
the F26 dev cycle.

> Chris Murphy
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