[ubuntu-in] Ubuntu 12.04 on Macbook Pro 5,1

Sriranga(78yrsold) withblessings at gmail.com
Thu Sep 6 11:20:04 UTC 2012


Parallels is virtual box? where it is available for download.

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Swarup <dinbandhu at sprynet.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2012-09-06 at 13:07 +0530, Linux Lingam wrote:
> > I'm still struggling to install Ubuntu 12.04, which is supposed to be
> > supported for 5 years.
>
> I have a MBP 5,2, and am hesitating to even attempt the 12.04
> installation for the same reason. But I have recently gotten a new imac
> for our home office, and installed Parallels on it. You may already be
> familiar with Parallels-- it is probably the most widely used software
> these days for running operating systems virtually in OSX. I am using
> both Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 virtually on OSX, via Parallels. It
> works great, and offers tremendous advantages. Just imagine: all the
> benefits of three OS's (OSX, Win 7, Ubuntu 12.04) at the same time with
> no rebooting! (I should emphasize here that I am a long-time Ubuntu
> user, and of the three OS's, for many reasons prefer Ubuntu. But there
> are still today some tasks that are best addressed in Win, for example
> relational databases in MS Access-- still no comparison anywhere else. I
> am waiting and very much looking forward to the day when good relational
> DB software is available in Ubuntu :-) )
>
> So this is just one option for you. If you install Parallels on OSX,
> then 12.04 will install in Parallels without any issue at all. You'll
> have your 12.04 installed and running in 20 minutes.
>
> Swarup
>
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