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How to set up Ubuntu Linux on a Mac -- it's easy and free
I received a private tweet from a reader the other day, who asked a question about a previous post in which I had installed Windows 7 RC1 on a Mac using Sun's VirtualBox. The tweet asked, "You did a post about installing Win 7 on the Mac for free. ...
Installing Ubuntu 8.10 on a Mac
When it comes to virtualization on the Mac, it's mostly discussed in the context of running a variant of Microsoft Windows. This makes sense; the ease of getting Windows to run within OS X (on Intel hardware) is one of the key reasons many first-time ...
PowerPC flavor of Ubuntu becomes 'unofficial'
Attention people who run Ubuntu on your PowerPC Macs! Good, I think I have managed to get the attention of the 3 people that fall into that category. The PowerPC distribution on Ubuntu will be classified as 'unofficial' as of version 7.04. What does ...
Ubuntu, Yellow Dog Linux for PPC updated
Dust off those old iBooks and Powerbooks and give them new life with Linux. Earlier this week, Ubuntu released version 7.04 of their desktop and server distribution, called "Feisty Fawn." While version 6 was the last officially supported version of ...
Make Ubuntu look like OS X
Ubuntu is a Linux distro (that's distribution to you, n00b) that is almost easy enough for none techs to run on their desktops, but it isn't quite there yet. That's not enough to stop plenty of people from downloading and installing this most ...
Tri-Boot Powerbook: Ubuntu, YDL, and OS X
On his site, Dave Taylor has just posted an article that he originally wrote for LinuxWorld Magazine, Ubuntu Linux, Yellowdog Linux and Mac OS X, all on one PowerBook?. For any TUAW readers out there who have ever thought about installing another OS ...
PRESS RELEASE: TUAW writer bucks trend, sticks with Mac OS X
Conrad Quilty-Harper, a writer for Mac site TUAW.com, has decided to continue using his Macintosh computer, countering the recent trend for high profile Ubuntu switches FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom (July 26th, 2006) - ...
Desktop of the Week for 3/25 - 3/31/07
This week's desktop is a bit of a curve ball and interesting (in our humble opinion) for three reasons. First, this isn't Mac OS X at all: it's a hot new beta version of Ubuntu 7.04, arguably one of the most popular versions of Linux with quite a ...
How To: Run other OSes on your Mac with Parallels Workstation
Parallels has been creating a lot of buzz with their Workstation software that allows Intel Mac users to run almost any version of Windows, Linux and many other OSs right inside of Mac OS X, without the need for shutting down what you're doing in ...
Open source .Mac alternative?
This is pretty cool. Ubuntu, in case you haven't heard of it, is a flavor of Linux whose tagline is:
"Linux for Human Beings." In other words, it is meant to be easy to use by everybody. Some Ubuntu members are planning
on building a .Mac-Like ...
Tim Bray back on Mac
Remember all that hubbub about Mac geeks switching to Ubuntu? Well, Tim Bray (one of those geeks) is back on the Mac and he thinks that it beats Ubuntu, though just barely. He lists a number of interesting reasons for why one would choose OS X or ...
Linux on Intel iMacs
The
Mactel-Linux project experienced some success this week
when they got a copy of Gentoo Linux to boot on an Intel-based iMac. We know, Linux on Apple hardware isn't news (Yellow Dog or Ubuntu, anyone?), but
it's still nice to reward the efforts of ...
The little Leopard laptop
I can always tell when I'm bored, because that's when I think up some challenge for myself. The initial spark for this challenge came when I wrote a post a few months ago about how Paul O'Brien at Modaco had successfully installed Leopard on a ...
The race to get Linux on Intel Macs
ComputerWorld has an interesting
article up about how the various flavors of Linux are working, or not working, towards running on the new Intel
Macs. Since the chips in the new Macs use the relatively new EFI (the successor to BIOS) most Linux ...
Mac OS X should be more Linuxy
If I were asked, 'Who do you think is the most knowledgeable person around about older Macs?' I would undoubtedly think of one man: Dan Knight. He is the force behind LowEndMac, which was one of the first Mac websites I read with any frequency.Dan ...
