I installed Ubuntu 8.10, Alpha 6 on my Mac Book Pro (2nd generation) last night to give it a whirl. I didn’t do anything with bootcamp, just a straight install. The installer was fine, it went it’s normal route. When I rebooted it took a while – I guess this is expected when booting an alternate OS.
The fun started when I logged in. What appeared to be a fully working install – wasn’t. The touchpad was slow and almost non responsive. I boosted the acceleration and other settings, but to no avail. It was unusable.
Audio worked, but not the audio out on the side. It didn’t switch over to optical output like it does with Leopard installed.
Dual monitors would only go into mirror mode. Even after I fiddled around with the settings I couldn’t get my desktop spanned across the second display.
It’s sad, but I had to go back to Leopard on the same night because I just don’t have the time to fool around with Ubuntu on my Mac to make it work the way I want it to.
Given that this is still only an Alpha release of Ubuntu I won’t count it out yet for being on my Mac. Once the proper release comes out, I’ll give it another try. But until then, Fail.