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  1. danallen

    Sanity Check On A Miracle?

    For a technical forum audience, I'd make it more concise and let the humor support the point rather than dominate it: The purpose of this post is to check whether my understanding is correct, because the news I'm seeing seems almost too good to be true. Is it now possible to run VMware Fusion...
  2. M

    France starts moving government systems from Windows to Linux

    Linux is getting more interest these days it seems. I've always been a Mac person, but open to options and open-source (groan). https://www.techspot.com/news/112032-france-starts-moving-government-systems-windows-linux.html https://world.hey.com/dhh/get-in-losers-we-re-moving-to-linux-5e1b93cd
  3. N

    Cant access Mac shared folder from Android or Linux client but works from an iPad.

    Hello. After a while, I'm back on a Mac and refreshing my skills. I currently have a Studio running Sequoia and I am having weird issues with sharing a folder in my Mac. I already followed the Apple instructions here (which by the way, are incorrect) ...
  4. Andrew-R

    Cinelerra-GG on emulated mac99

    Finally it does not crash! Git: https://git.cinelerra-gg.org/goodguy/cinelerra.git configure (on Debian 8.11 PPC32): ./configure --with-single-user --without-thirdparty --disable-libdpx --without-vdpau --without-vaapi --without-shuttle --without-shuttle-usb --without-lv2 --without-libdpx...
  5. R

    Running Linux/BSD on iPad using an external device (Mac/pc/cloud)

    What you’ll really need: 1. A server capable of running qemu using -serial stdio (meaning it should have at least 16GB and 2GHZ of space and be able to connect remotely using SSH or Telnet) (or a cloud server like AWS or Google Cloud or even Azure) 2. an iPad with a hardware keyboard for the...
  6. lijiaxuan

    MP 1,1-5,1 RX580 not seem to be working on Mac Pro (Mid 2010)

    Hello guys, I've recently got a Mac Pro Mid 2010 and it seems to run decently well. I've used it as my linux machine for a while but then I wanted to upgrade its gpu. I acquired an HP-OEM AMD Radeon RX580, and it works just fine when I tested it on my other PC. However, after I installed it in...
    • lijiaxuan
    • Thread
    • gpu linux mac pro (2010) rx580
    • Replies: 18
    • Forum: Mac Pro
  7. bobesch

    MBA 1,1-6,2 Second Life for 2013 11"/13" MBA with Multiboot (native macOS / OCLP / Ubuntu)

    Here's how it all started: as an alternative to my current Windows-based bread&butter software, there's a software solution, that supports it's client-software to run on macOS, Windows or even Ubuntu-Linux. Currently I have a bunch of mid2012 15" MacBookPro as Win10Pro clients running at my...
  8. Giuanniello

    [Linux] Is it possible to boot off a USB stick with a Linux distro?

    My old 2014 MBAir sees little use and I am getting curious to try a Linux distro just for the sake of it, I would like to try normal browsing as well as photo retouch (currently an Adobe user mainly on LightRoom and some PhotoShop), is it possible to boot off a USB stick and which distribution...
  9. kahunalx

    A small victory for my PowerMac G4 MDD and Linux - Acceleration!

    Hello everyone, I've been working on getting decent hardware 2D/3D acceleration and video decoding on my PowerMac G4 MDD. My goal is to keep the stock Radeon 9000 PRO AGP card for OS 9, macOS X, and MorphOS, while using a newer PCI card for Linux. After testing several NVIDIA cards with little...
    • kahunalx
    • Thread
    • arch debian graphics acceleration linux powermac powerpc ppc
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: PowerPC Macs
  10. N

    macOS Apple Releases Container Tool

    "container is a tool that you can use to create and run Linux containers as lightweight virtual machines on your Mac. It's written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon." https://github.com/apple/container "On macOS, the typical way to run Linux containers is to launch a Linux virtual...
  11. roxics

    What Windows or Linux features would improve MacOS?

    I'm a mac user because I love MacOS. Even though I think mac hardware is well made and I like the low power quiet operation of the mac mini, I would trade it for PC hardware that could legitimately run MacOS in a heartbeat. However talking with PC people, their perspective is the opposite. To...
    • roxics
    • Thread
    • linux macos windows
    • Replies: 29
    • Forum: macOS
  12. 9

    Imac 2010 ball-ache with dGPU HD 4670/RV730

    Are there some versions of Linux that are better developed to handle the Apple with dGPU issues. Part of me understands this is not so much an OS issue, and I understand that its more of kernel and EFi implementation issue, so will be prevalent on any Linux versions, am I right? Whenever...
  13. K

    iM 4,1-14,4 Am I stuck on high Sierra?

    I have upgraded my iMac to: I7, 32gb ram, 880m 8gb with Apple bios by Nickey and a 1tb ssd sata. Installed el Capitan to high Sierra 10.13.6 Installed web drivers Nvidia. Edited a plist to include my Mac serial id. When I try to install latest Mac os apps like discord, vs code I get a...
  14. R

    VirtualProg - macOS Virtualization Tool

    I have released a new virtual machine manager tool for mac VirtualProg - macOS Virtualization Tool developed using native macOS Virtualization framework.
    • rbmanian75
    • Thread
    • linux macos parallels utm virtual virtualization vmware fusion
    • Replies: 96
    • Forum: Mac Apps
  15. slitherjef

    Finally nuked my Linux install. Where to go next.

    So it took a long while but it finally happened, an update to an application on my aging potato Linux box black screened my system... Been trying to daily drive Linux for a long time but it hasn't been smooth and I'm not Linux inclined anyway and often times felt like I was missing out on some...
  16. featherwhisker

    Grub doesn't work on PowerBook6,5 (2004 iBook G4s)

    I've been trying to find information on this but I can't find *anything* except for a few abandoned webpages and fixes that don't work Grub does NOT work for installation CDs on the PowerBook6,5. This means that anything using Grub for its installation image will not boot. This may also affect...
  17. I

    Tri boot with OS X, Win and Linux and alternatives on MacBook Pro mid-2012

    hi there, which is the best way to solve a tri boot with OSX High Sierra, win and linux. a) the operating systems installed internal hdd drive b) the operating systems installed internal on SSD not M2 (not sure if both are treated as ssd) c) both cases either with HighSierra or Catalina Sonoma...
  18. I

    tri boot ssd with hdd for hfs+ operations, opencore and linux

    hello, i have a macbook pro mid 2012 for many years and decided to replace the old hdd with an old 1TB WD passport external portable hdd with the red jumper removed to possibly benefit some extra rotation speed. i removed the dvd and i now have the 1TB and a 500GB ssd. All hdds have high sierra...
    • istme1
    • Thread
    • bootable drive formating high sierra linux macbook pro mid 2012 multiple operating system opencore partitioning sonoma triple boot
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: macOS High Sierra (10.13)
  19. Calab

    MP 1,1-5,1 AMD video card for Mac Pro with boot screen

    I have a mid 2012 Mac Pro that I'm trying to put back into service. I've installed a "patched" version of Catalina 10.15.7. Right now it has an nVidia GTX680 video card, meaning I get no acceleration. I also have this machine dual booting to Linux Mint 22 using reFind. I'm having issues with the...
    • Calab
    • Thread
    • catalina dual boot graphics card linux
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Mac Pro
  20. C

    MP 1,1-5,1 Problem booting Mac Pro 5,1 with linux kernel 6.8.0 – no problems with linux kernel 6.5.0

    I am running a MacPro 5,1 which can triple boot MacOS Sonoma, Ventura and Ubuntu/Linux from separate SSDs. In the past two days I could not boot Linux 6.8.0. MacOS and Linux 6.50 boot fine. I use OpenCore Legacy patcher (OCLP) on the MP 5,1 to select the required boot drive (each OS on...
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