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Hay macusers, i have got a question about MOL: is this an emulator? that mean you have to install Mac OS X inside MOL or can it start mac os x from another inactive partion? thx for answer

Hi macusers, i want to connect from my linux workstation x86 to mac os x and have the dreamweaver display on Linux. is this possible?

Anybody had success installing Red Hat Linux 9 in Virtual PC 6? I downloaded the install images from the Red Hat website and created an empty PC drive file. I configured the new PC for a linux installation, captured the disk images and then booted up the new system. The Red Hat installer...

I have 2 windows computers and we play halflife alot between the two boxes. When i got this laptop I started to wonder wether or not halflife can be played on the mac. I've read posts about how porting halflife to mac got killed in '99. But someone was also sayin that if you copy the game folder...

I've been using samba for some time now to mount mac shares on a linux machine. But since yesterday I just can't mount it anymore this is what I get: [root@localhost root]# mount -t smbfs //racer/share /racer/share -o username=*,password=* 18044: session setup failed: ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad...

Hello everyone, I am trying to connect an Apple iBook to a Gentoo Linux machine. The Linux machines has exported an NFS directory called /hdb/share. I want to be able to mount that directory via the NFS protocol from the iBook at /Share. I have downloaded and installed the NFS Manager...

Hello, I am anundergraduate, non-CS major. I am interested in learning how to port or help port apps written in linux and any of the unix variants to run natively in Mac OS X. By this I mean take whatever the orginal programmer has written and make it into a a double-clickabble package that...

SuperKaramba is a Konfabulator for Linux. Here is the link, thought it was worth posting and having people check it out. Link to SuperKaramba

I installed YD today and have run into a few issues that I am hoping that someone can help me with. 1. YABOOT For some reason it does not see my OS X partition so from the YABOOT manager I can not get to my OS X partition. I am able to use the option key and select it and load to OS X, but...

I want to hear some opinions about the other OS that is in the run to take out Microsoft Windows out of the lead, you guessed it Linux. I tried switching over from Windows on my x86 machine and we'll I find it impossible. First off you have to have a rocket science degree to figure out how...

Advice needed I want to install Mandrake Linux 9.1 on my system. I have two 80 gig hdd's. One has about 50 gig on it..it is for video and just about any multimedia files. The other has about 15 gig on it...it' the OS and program installation drive. I was thinking about using Carbon...

I was wondering if you could possibly use the GNOME and KDE environments form a linux CD in X Darwin.

Ok, lets get one thing out, linux has its problems. Not necessarly the OS its self, but rather the things a regular user has to put up with. You could extend this post to FreeBSD as well, but I think FreeBSD has some of the most common issues allready worked out, so I'm gona skip it for now...

I'd like to get a distro of Linux for my iMac G3 to play with. I want it to run along side with OS X so i can dual boot. Does anyone have any suggestions? I've never done anything with Linux before. Should I buy YelloDog 3 which looks good, or use another? Thanks for any help.

Terra Soft Unveils Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 :D Key features of Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 include: # 6 CDs (3 install, 3 source). # Modern, robust Anaconda installer engine. # kernel 2.4.20. # gcc 3.2.1 and glibc 2.3.1. # XFree86 4.3, GNOME 2.2, and KDE 3.1. # Mac-On-Linux 0.9.68 (Classic Mac OS...

Does any OS-X on PPC vs Linux on X86 benchmark exist ? Now that we can run X11 on Mac, I would be interested to compare execution of software on x86 based UNIX systems with our PPC based Apple X11. Do you know where I can find such benchmarks ?

Okay... This is definitelly _too_geek_for_the_other_boards_ : I want to install Linux to my Spectravideo 738 ;) Which distro do you suggest? :eek: Also here and here stuff about it. It _is_ old (3,6 MHz processor!!!) but it was my first computer and .. I'd like to figure if I...

I'm soon to add a few RedHat workstations to my LAN, and I'd like to be able to use Bryce Lightning (network render client) on them, with the base Bryce on my Mac OS X machine. Anyone know of any ports? I can't find any...

This might be a better place to ask the question rather then General Discussions. Ok I have now purchased a G4 1gig, 256 ram, CD-R/DVD, 60HD, OSX, and 64meg NVIDIA video. I am going to use my previously purchased 19" Viewsonic CRT with DVI to VGA pig tail. My question before actually opening...

Ok I have now purchased a G4 1gig, 256 ram, CD-R/DVD, 60HD, OSX, and 64meg NVIDIA video. I am going to use my previously purchased 19" Viewsonic CRT with DVI to VGA pig tail. My question before actually opening it is. My main motivation for buying the Mac is to actually learn UNIX. Is this...