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Scrambled Egg Machine

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What to do...
« on: 21 Feb 2007, 15:24 »
I am pondering getting Linux, and then possibly downloading MacOSX if I can to run a 3 OS system. Ideas, comments, help, opinions?
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Re: What to do...
« Reply #1 on: 22 Feb 2007, 06:17 »
what do you plan on running these on?

A PC, or a Mac?
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Re: What to do...
« Reply #2 on: 22 Feb 2007, 07:39 »
Linux is well worth trying.  You might want to check out a Live CD version of something.

I recommend CentOS 4.4   http://www.centos.org/

Other information:
http://www.intuitive.com/blog/ubuntu_linux_yellowdog_linux_and_mac_os_x_all_on_one_powerbook.html

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Re: What to do...
« Reply #3 on: 22 Feb 2007, 23:35 »
Use Fedora (www.fedora.redhat.com) it's a more updated version of CentOS with more packages available, Centos is based on RHEL and is designed for bussines critical Servers.

I have OS-X and Fedora Core 5 on this laptop (Mac Book Pro).

My Desktop pc has Fedora Core 6 and Win XP pro.

I've used Ubuntu in the past, it's a good distro if you're a newbie to Linux.  But you'll get frustrated if you try to more complex stuff.

As for triple booting there is not all that much point. OS-X "under the hood" is fairly similar to linux (Bare in mind its not free and it's not open source, so downloading it is illegal).

If you do end up using Linux make sure you familiarise yourself with the package management system your distro uses, package management is the single best thing about running linux, makes it trivial to install thousands of different programs at the click of a button.


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Re: What to do...
« Reply #4 on: 23 Feb 2007, 23:51 »
Triple booting is a bit unneeded unless this is more along the lines of something to do just to have done it. Linux can be quite fun to play with, and is most certainly one of those things where once you start toying with it, you will probably stick with it from then on.
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Re: What to do...
« Reply #5 on: 25 Feb 2007, 14:30 »
Quote from: Tyler on 23 Feb 2007, 23:51
Triple booting is a bit unneeded unless this is more along the lines of something to do just to have done it. Linux can be quite fun to play with, and is most certainly one of those things where once you start toying with it, you will probably stick with it from then on.

Eh, not in my experience. I dual booted a few different distros, and never found one that worked well for me.
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