Install CentOS 7 on Old Mac Mini (late 2009)
This installation is also one of the less successful installation. However, we manage to get it work without wifi enabled. For those of you who want to use wifi, we suggest to use an USB wifi adapter. Main Issue The main issue is with the Broadcom wifi driver. Mac Mini (late 2009) uses Broadcom wifi chipset and thus we required Broadcom drivers. However, Broadcom drivers are not open sourced. This is in conflict to the open source principal adopted by the Red Hat Community. In summary, there will be no rpm build for Broadcom drivers. We have to compile and build the package ourselves. We have attempted to compile our driver, but we encounter many dependencies issue. Since there are many Linux distribution that works, we decided not to waste our time on building the driver. Another main issue we encounter is the ethernet driver. Mac Mini uses Nvidia ethernet chip for the network port. The latest version of CentOS has stop supporting these old network drivers. Therefore, Cent...