Root Moose

"Upgraded" an old MacBookPro10.2 (early 2013) from Debian to Alpine Linux. Bit a pain remembering how to get the Broadcom B43 driver installed but not a big deal (Thanks, Alpine Wiki!).

Nice, snappy little machine with a fantabulous screen. It's ancient (Ivy Bridge i5-3230M!) but still very usable for light duty computing.

This machine will probably live in the garage so I can stop using my big, "good" laptop for connecting to OBD ports and flashing crap and whatnot.

#Linux #AlpineLinux

Mar 20 at 9:45pmWeb
Show threadMacer1d ago
@RootMoose i swapped the broadcom out for an intel wifi module with a cheap (on amazon) adapter. unless you're going to run macos on it ever again then it's a nice way to get around that so it's 'out the box' with linux. you can also get an nvme adapter (i bumped mine up to 1TB). mine is late 2013 but i'm pretty sure the early 2013 still has the parts to be swapped.
Show threadRoot Moose1d ago

@macer Yeah, that's a good idea. I'll see how much use I get out of it.

That machine has been sitting on shelf for like 3-4 years so I'm kinda loathe to even spend $20 on a wifi card. Ha.

The screen is so nice though. Hmm, conflicted.

Show threadMacer11h ago
@RootMoose that's why i won't give up my 2013 macbook until it is struck by an asteroid. good screens are hard to come by and linux drives it perfectly.