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Here is a screen capture of Ubuntu running in Parallels on my Macbook. There are some screen shots of the installation process in my Ubuntu Linux Flickr set.

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Software used:

• Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn
• Parallels
• iShowU

• iMovie HD
• Quicktime Pro

Here is the direct link to the Ubuntu wallpaper I created.

Labels: 7.04, apple, fawn, feisty, linux, mac, macbook, parallels, screenshots, ubuntu, video, wallpaper

Summary (very light summary):

"So why would Apple even want to venture into supporting Linux on OS X “Lynx?’. . . countries are embracing the collaborative model of open source on a national level to fend off caged IT models. Apple’s future moves to support Linux natively on OS X via “Lynx” will drive this revolution even farther than the eye could see"

The story goes through a lot of things that Apple may do in the future.read more | digg story

My Take

Personally I'd love to be able to run Linux in OS X or at least linux apps, I know you can do some of this with Fink & X11 But to be able to run SuSE, Gentoo, or Ubuntu inside OS X would be cool. With boot camp I'm sure the Gentoo users will get it dual booting, so I'll be looking foward to that when I get my macbook. And I know a lot of my Linux friends will be buying a mac laptop if they can run linux on it natively, or concurrently.

And hopefully more desktop versions of Linux will be easy enough that nongeeks will want to use it and will want to use it on apple hardware.

Edit, 4/21/2006 1:09am:

Parallels Workstation looks very promising, this program allows you to run all types of OSes inside of a window in OS X. You can even run multiple OS concurrently. Parallels can run MSDOS, Win 3.1 - XP to, Red hat Linux and other versions of Linux, I even read a story about someone running Next's Openstep in it! The new beta has added some features such as being able to run the guest OS in full screen mode (it hides the apple menu atop, so it looks exactly as if it running as the only OS) the best part about this is support for dual monitors, So now I can run gentoo or ubuntu fullscreen on one monitor and OS X on the other. This is what I call heaven!

Edit, 10/11/2007 4:07am:

Currently I have Ubuntu 7.04 running in Parallels it wasn’t very easy to get it going, but it wasn’t super difficult either. Just to be clear installing Ubuntu is very easy, it just that Parallels can be fussy.

Labels: apple, linux, mac, osx, software

“The One Laptop Per Child organization will use Linux on its inexpensive machines, but apparently the OS suffers the same code bloat as Windows, the project's leader said Tuesday.”

read more | digg story

This story obvious is just trying to be a bit “shocky” in order to get readers. (Which is fine by me.) The title of the story is only reflected in about 1 of 17 paragraphs, so the article doesn’t really talk much about why Linux is considered bloated by Mr. Negroponte. To say that Linux is bloated, and then compare it to Windows is quite false.

Linux in a strict sense is suppose to refer to the kernel of the OS. Which probably does have some bloat to it since it doesn’t have every 3rd party developer writing drivers for them, so they come supplied in the kernel.

Most people think of Linux as Distros, with a windowing system, utilities and basic apps. Linux is often and incorrectly thought of as Redhat, SuSE, Ubuntu, etc, but this are really distributions, that come with hundreds or thousand of other programs. If Windows came with most of every program that you used, you would have yourself a good handful of discs. With Linux & Linux distros you can rip out whatever you want or rewrite what ever part you want, it is open source, if the code is bloated then you can fine tune it. Can’t do that with Windows. I run Linux on a 400mhz PDA (Zaurus SL-5500), and it runs great. Linux has been made to run on watches, pdas (link 2), Phones, dance floors, beer kegs, plus tons of other interesting things. So I’m pretty sure it can handle a 500mhz machine with 128mb of memory. Yes, by spending time with the code (An unavailable option with Windows) you can make it run a lot faster, but I would guess that any advanced Linux user could get Linux running quite well on MITs 100 dollar laptop. So if Mr. Negroponte can’t get his engineers to, then I'm shocked.

Labels: linux, technology