[CoLoCo] Recent Mac Purchase

[David L. Willson]

What about "Unity"?  VMware Workstation for Linux lets me use a "Unity" view, in addition to "Quick Switch" and "Full Screen", to put Windows windows with my Linux windows, so they sort of act like normal windows.  Maybe there's something similar for OS X?

David L. Willson
Network Engineer
MCT, MCSE, Linux+
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin B" <solelist at skyshadows.net>
To: "Ubuntu Colorado Local Community Team" <ubuntu-us-co at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 1:04:03 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
Subject: Re: [CoLoCo] Recent Mac Purchase


Dual-booting a mac is a bit of a pain, since you have to install a new bootloader (rEFit) and boot camp is a windows only option. I'd suggest trying a vm using vmware fusion first. What I used to do is run a stripped down Linux install in vm fusion and ssh into it from the X server in OS X. Then I could launch linux applications without having to deal with them all being in one big window. 


On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:29 PM, David L. Willson < DLWillson at thegeek.nu > wrote: 


Never mind. I re-read and realized that Nick's not talking about taking OS X off. In case I didn't make it obvious, I am all in favor of virt. I think multi-booting is a pain in the ass. I wish Apple would sell a virtual OS X appliance for VMware. I'd buy that. 

David L. Willson 
Network Engineer 
MCT, MCSE, Linux+ 
tel://720.333.LANS 





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David L. Willson" <DLWillson at TheGeek.NU> 
To: "Ubuntu Colorado Local Community Team" < ubuntu-us-co at lists.ubuntu.com > 
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:09:30 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain 
Subject: Re: [CoLoCo] Recent Mac Purchase 

Help me out here. What is the point of buying a Macbook and putting something else on it? To spend more? You know that Linux runs on much less costly laptops, so why bludgeon a functioning install of 10.5 or whatever, that you just ~paid for~? 

Virtualization, sure, but kick OS X off the hardware? What's the point of spending all the extra money then? 

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