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Want to see what all the Linux hype is about? Want to be able to take part in the Linux based geek conversations around the water cooler at work? Feel left out when your friends are raving about the latest release of Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Fedora, or Mandriva? Run a Intel based Mac? No problem!
How to Run Linux on a Mac. This article will show you how to install a Linux distro onto your Intel based Mac, without having to reformat your drive, nor erase your partition. Download the latest version of Linux distro of.
The most straightforward way I have found to deal with booting multiple operating systems on an EFI based Intel Mac is to install the rEFIt boot manager in OSX. While in Mac OSX, visit the rEFIt website, download the Mac disk image, mount the image, and install…
Yes. It's always been possible to run Linux on Macs as long as you use a version that is compatible with the Mac hardware. Most Linux applications run on compatible versions of Linux. You can start at www.linux.org.
You can run several different versions of *nixes on Intel Macs using the Parallels Desktop for Mac virtual machine software (www.parallels.com) as well as all extant versions of Windows and a few other operating systems.
You can directly install any compatible version of Linux directly on a separate partition and set up a dual-boot system.
Then, of course, you can look for compatible versions of software that run directly on OS X or through the X11 windowing system. OS X is essentially a version of Unix. There is an OS X version of SPICE.
You can run several different versions of *nixes on Intel Macs using the Parallels Desktop for Mac virtual machine software (www.parallels.com) as well as all extant versions of Windows and a few other operating systems.
You can directly install any compatible version of Linux directly on a separate partition and set up a dual-boot system.
Then, of course, you can look for compatible versions of software that run directly on OS X or through the X11 windowing system. OS X is essentially a version of Unix. There is an OS X version of SPICE.
Oct 18, 2006 9:03 PM