Linux and Mac OS X?

[Christa Pho]

Hey guys,
I know boot camp will let you run windows as well as OS X,
Does anyone see a way to run Linux as well as OS X?
Or is that just a stupid question to ask?


And if no,
In your opinions,
Should I run Linux or OS X?

 

[thejadedmonkey]

I do it. I have OS X on an 80 gig partition, linux on a 6 gig partition, and some 20 gigs of unpartitioned space.

Linux works great (and by great I mean installing it was fine, drivers are crap.. but that's linux for ya ) Eventually I'll work on getting XP installed and then I'll be über-geekness!

 

[clevin]

i heard that bootcamp works with some linux distroes too.

you can always try fusion or parrallel tho

to use linux or not, your call. doesn't hurt to try some liveCD tho' such as ubuntu 8.04 beta...

 

[TEG]

There really is no point to running Linux on a Mac, since OS X is UNIX based and you can run all your Linux software on it.

TEG

 

[MacsRgr8]

TBO you won't need Boot Camp to install Linux.
Even for Windows you don't have to run the Boot Camp assistant, as your Mac's EFI has BIOS support.
You just need to get a HD formatted as FAT32 with MBR option enabled. Once you've done that you can get Win XP (SP2), Win Vista, x86 Linux and x64 Linux on about every Core 2 Duo or later Mac!

In my case I got Mac OS X, Win XP SP2, and Win Vista SP1 x64 all running!

The Mac Pro is the best Personal Computer EVAH!!!

 

[thejadedmonkey]

You need bootcamp or some way to partition a hard drive if you're using a portable machine.

OS X is not Linux. I can't use the gnome or KDE desktop on OS X, I can't get fancy window transitions, and I can't get a cube effect on multiple desktop switching.

 

[72930]

[In OSX] I can't get a cube effect on multiple desktop switching.

If you want it, check out VirtueDesktops

 

[TEG]

You need bootcamp or some way to partition a hard drive if you're using a portable machine.

OS X is not Linux. I can't use the gnome or KDE desktop on OS X, I can't get fancy window transitions, and I can't get a cube effect on multiple desktop switching.

You can run any X-Windows system, including CDE, GNOME, and KDE in OSX, you just won't be able to run OSX software with in those window systems. I never said OSX was Linux, I said it was UNIX. With X-11 any of your softw will run just fine.

TEG

 

[thejadedmonkey]

You can run any X-Windows system, including CDE, GNOME, and KDE in OSX, you just won't be able to run OSX software with in those window systems. I never said OSX was Linux, I said it was UNIX. With X-11 any of your softw will run just fine.

TEG

whoa, that's awesome! I'm gonna have to google that stuff.. wiiiicked

 

[cafeganesha]

You can run any X-Windows system, including CDE, GNOME, and KDE in OSX, you just won't be able to run OSX software with in those window systems. I never said OSX was Linux, I said it was UNIX. With X-11 any of your softw will run just fine.

TEG

It's nice to have the capability to run those programs, but in my opinion it sucks having them running in X11. The windows are confusing, and it tends to be really slow in my experience as compared to running them natively in linux.

I installed Kubuntu on a partition on my iBook and it rocks... gave a new life to my old laptop which had become way lame after I got my new iMac. =)

 

[McGiord]

What Linux software is worth running on a Mac?
________
video reviews

 

[clevin]

What Linux software is worth running on a Mac?

alot, many of them aren't available for mac yet

Not available AFAIK
K9Copy, backup dvd to 4.5G iso with one click
Amarok, music player, manager
mencoder, video encoder/decoder, handle real video
compiz-fusion
pidgin
wine

available
avidemux, free avi cutter, jointer, editor
ffmpeg video encoder/decoder
crossover
gimp

 

[kuwisdelu]

I have an Ubuntu installation through VMWare Fusion. That way, should I need, I can run Ubuntu at the same time as OS X. I haven't had any need for it yet, but it's pretty easy.

 

[richard.mac]

alot, many of them aren't available for mac yet

Not available AFAIK
K9Copy, backup dvd to 4.5G iso with one click
Amarok, music player, manager
mencoder, video encoder/decoder, handle real video
compiz-fusion
pidgin
wine

available
avidemux, free avi cutter, jointer, editor
ffmpeg video encoder/decoder
crossover
gimp

isnt MATLAB just made for Linux and Mac OS X uses it with X11?

i installed Ubuntu and Fedora in Parallels once. mainly just for curiosity and to see how they run. i found them pretty slow and hard to make the them take up the whole of my 1920x1200 screen. i ended up having to edit the Xorg.conf file which is hardly user friendly for a GUI user. ill stick to Mac OS X.

 

[clevin]

isnt MATLAB just made for Linux and Mac OS X uses it with X11?

i installed Ubuntu and Fedora in Parallels once. mainly just for curiosity and to see how they run. i found them pretty slow and hard to make the them take up the whole of my 1920x1200 screen. i ended up having to edit the Xorg.conf file which is hardly user friendly for a GUI user. ill stick to Mac OS X.

paarallels make everything worse than they are.

I thought MATLab is a windows app?

 

[richard.mac]

paarallels make everything worse than they are.

I thought MATLab is a windows app?

windows and Un*x. my lecturer uses MATLAB on his MBP in class using X11. i just use it on the uni PCs as i havent bought it yet. i think MATLAB is native for both Linux and windows but to use it on OS X you have to use X11.

im currently using Octave which is a free alternative to MATLAB that runs in Terminal. i cant find out how to use it with .m files so i will fork out the cash for MATLAB soon.

 

[clevin]

thanks for the info, I only used R and matlab a little bit in the past, really not an expert, but glad to know at least it works under linux and OSX in some way.

 

[trainguy77]

alot, many of them aren't available for mac yet

Not available AFAIK
K9Copy, backup dvd to 4.5G iso with one click
Amarok, music player, manager
mencoder, video encoder/decoder, handle real video
compiz-fusion
pidgin
wine

available
avidemux, free avi cutter, jointer, editor
ffmpeg video encoder/decoder
crossover
gimp

look into Darwine. Also you can run Gnome or KDE in X11.