[vox-tech] Apple & Linux

[Jeffrey J. Nonken]

Wow, hmm. I've not been keeping up with the list... two days after you 
posted this, my wife gave me a refurbed MacBook for my birthday. 
Mine's the white 2 ghz Intel Core Duo.

I've been running Windows XP under Parallels. Some twitchiness and 
occasional problems, and while I'm running it the rest of OS X seems 
rather slow, but overall it's worked out. I've needed to use a laptop 
at work running Windows the last few days, so I have the best of both 
worlds.

And for the most part, it runs Windows better than a PeeCee. :)


On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 13:04:34 -0800, Matin Hashemi wrote:
> Hello everybody :-)
> 
> It has been a few weeks since I decided to buy one of these cute
> black 13" MacBooks. Yes, I love black :-) see there ARE people who
> pay just for a color and Apple sale guys are very well aware of
> that! Anyways, the thing I "really" like about it is that I can
> "hopefully" run any application from all OS's (Linux, Apple, Win)
> on that. Sweet :-) ha?
> 
> There is just one little problem here: I have to reboot the machine
> every time I need to use an application from the other OS :(   
> Fortunately, I just learned that there is some Free BSD already
> installed in Apple OS X Tiger. Am I right? (as you can see I never
> touched any Apple before). I was wondering if I can install,
> compile and run Linux applications on that or not. I mean like a
> native application inside OSX, not by installing Linux as a
> secondary OS, and also not by using a sloooow virtual machine!
> Please advise.....
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> Matin (a computer engineering student who is supposed to know these
> stuff already :-)