i was thinking about it for a long time, and two weeks ago i did it, I am working now under linux !
i installed mageia 3 in dual boot with refit on my macbook pro 9.1.
I chose mageia because of the comunity-based, non commercial, multipurpose aspects of the project (also because i'm french

And i am realy hapy with it so far, so thank you for all your work guys !
but, i have one last major issue, i can't make working my wifi card. It's a broadcom card 4331.
I made many web research andfinaly found this page : http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
i first followed the mandriva instructions here : http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Installing_ ... _or_higher
the "Installing the firmware on Mandriva Linux 2011 or higher" part
then i tried the generic part : "Other distributions not mentioned above"
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export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware"
wget http://www.lwfinger.com/b43-firmware/broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2
tar xjf broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2
sudo b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" broadcom-wl-5.100.138/linux/wl_apsta.o
and the "Switching between drivers" part
nothing worked

when i go on mageia control center > hardware > broadcom 4331 and i click configure, i add a wirless network, i steel have only one choice : ndiswrapper.
i have to miss something, any idea ?
all my bests