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One thing you could consider doing if you are serious about the project is replacing the standard debian testing kernel with the proper kernel.

Debian guts all non-free packages, and binary drivers from the kernel. This greatly improves hardware support.



Thank you, I will look into that. My only hardware concern is the internal microphone, though, everything else works. Even the keyboard backlight, suspend etc. I have much less trouble than I expected ;)

[Edit: I am serious about this project. I'm running Debian full time now since more than a week and consider giving up iOS development, the only thing that can be done only on OS X]


OSX can be ran in the KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) so if you don't want to quit your side job over the switch :)

[1] http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~somlo/OSXKVM/


A question: Do you have your apt sources pointed at 'testing' or at 'jessie'.

If the former, you may find stability takes a big hit after jessie becomes stable and all the new packages from unstable get pushed down.

If the latter, you should be good.




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