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INSTALL LINUX ON MAC OS X HOW TO
INSTALL LINUX ON MAC OS X MAC OS X
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INSTALL LINUX ON MAC OS X INSTALL

I guess it all depends what do you want to do." I have my Macs dual booted with Xubuntu, and I hardly go back to Mac. Mac is a very good OS, but I personally like Linux better. Skunxoi: "I've been using Mac computers for the last 10 years now. Softpedia readers had their own thoughts to share about the virtues of combining Linux with Mac hardware: Some of you out there might call it a Hackintosh, but I like to call it a Linuxtosh.

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I myself have a regular computer where I am dual booting Arch Linux and Mac OS X.

INSTALL LINUX ON MAC OS X INSTALL

If you really need to have a Linux OS alongside OS X and you know what you're doing, install it, otherwise get a different, cheaper computer for all your Linux needs.

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Mac OS X is a great operating system, so if you bought a Mac, stay with it.

INSTALL LINUX ON MAC OS X HOW TO

So, we're back from where we started, if you're not a skilled hacker or computer enthusiast who knows how to optimize a Linux kernel and other core components for specific Mac hardware, you should not bother installing a Linux distro in the first place. The only problems I ran into was with respect to the iPod management, which was solved by resetting the iPod with iTunes for windows, which formatted the device as VFAT, instead of Mac OS’ HFS+.Many of you will want to install Linux on a Mac out of curiosity, but the sad truth is that you'll end up asking all over the Internet how to remove it, because, in many cases, it won't recognize some of the hardware components of your Mac computer.

x11vnc for VNC access to the logged-in sessionĪll in all it works rather nicely.

TeamViewer for remote access outside of the local network.

abcde for automatic CD ripping - with configuration tips from Andrews Corner ).

Lightdm as login manager (with auto-login).

boot from said CD (press and hold the ALT button as soon as the grey screen appears on your Mac).

The multiarch CD image supports both 32-bit and 64-bit (U)EFI, and hence, it works for this device. So you get a bit of a schizophrenic situation. Why multi-arch, you might ask? Why not use the x86_64 (64-bit) install image, as the Intel Core2Duo is capable of handling this? Because Apple, in all their wisdom, decided to include a 32-bit EFI with a CPU capable of handling 64-bit code. (note that this link points to the daily built CD images, which might or might not be broken at any given day)

download the multiarch network install CD image, burn it to a CD.

Not much, really. So, in the end, being tired of the general slowness of the device, I bit the bullet, exchanged the old 80GB hard disk with a newer and bigger model, and went on the journey to install Debian on it.

Playing music from the audio library to the connected amplifier.

Using Videostream to cast movies to our Chromecast.iTunes to manage an iPod classic, and to auto-rip newly bought CD’s.You can’t turn off the Mac Mini using the power button, it goes to sleep, and it can’t be reprogrammed.TeamViewer takes up a ridiculous amount of CPU power on OS X.They also managed to actually break VNC for anything except the OS X client.

Not fantastic from a security point of view.

Apple stopped providing updates for it.

Not Apple’s finest installment of OS X, truth be told. I still had an old Mac Mini (model 2,1) - which I bought during a period of experimentation with different operating systems - connected to the TV, running Mac OS X Lion. Replacing OS X with Linux on my Mac Mini 2,1