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The answer depends on you willingness to invest in commercial software:
If you don’t mind spending some money on a commercial product, Paragon’s ExtFS driver will give you read and write access to ext2 / ext3 / ext4 file systems. Version 9 supports all versions of OS X from 10.5 to 10.8.
If you are looking for a free solution, you can setup a Linux virtual ...
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The Mac OS X native application do not use the X protocol for the rendering, but the Mac specific protocol. So you cannot use ssh X protocol forwarding as you could with a Linux workstation.
As you discovered, the reverse is not true, you can install an X server on Mac OS X and have the Linux program appear on your Mac.
What you can do is use either Mac ...
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That depends on what your problems are with your mac and whether Linux solves them. Gotta give more detail than that, man.
Personally, I love my mac for development for a few reasons:
Window management is great. At work I have two decent monitors, but when I'm coding on my little 15" MBP, having cmd-tab/cmd-` is great and Exposé is a godsend.
I have a ...
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OS X's tar uses the AppleDouble format to store extended attributes and ACLs. tar and Archive Utility also know how to convert the ._ files back to the native formats, but the ._ files are kept if the archive is extracted on another platform or on a non-HFS volume.
You can usually just tell tar to remove the metadata by setting COPYFILE_DISABLE to some ...
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You can install the pstree command using either Homebrew (my personal favourite), MacPorts or Fink and you'll get a command-line, tree view of processes on your Mac.
To install with Homebrew it's just:
brew install pstree
Once you have Homebrew on your machine.
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Your friend has no idea what he's talking about. You don't even need to use a Linux disc - you can use single user mode or a Mac OS X install disc to copy things or make changes to the filesystem.
To prevent someone from booting into single user mode or from an unauthorized disc or external drive, your friend can set a firmware password. However, this, too, ...
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So if I am not mistaken the the problem you have with VNC currently is that it is sharing the current Mac user's screen with apps open that you don't want to see on your other computer? Lion introduces the ability to screen share users that are logged in the background. Quoting the text from the link:
Enable Screen Sharing and set a VNC password.
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Unfortunately you cannot virtualize OS X Lion under any other OS except OS X Lion. It's not enough that it's running on Apple hardware.
The OS X Lion EULA says:
Section 2, Sub-Section B:
(iii) to install, use and run up to two (2) additional copies or
instances of the Apple Software within virtual operating system
environments on each Mac ...
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I did a switch from Linux just a week ago. I am using Linux for 15+ years. Lately my Desktop distro of choice was Ubuntu.
Mac OS X is a BSD based system, so minor issues you will have to get used to is staff like using ipfw instead of iptables.
As you will pretty soon realise Ubuntu (and other distros) simply mimic lots of Mac solutions when it comes to ...
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The shortcut for Terminal.app is ⌘+⇧+doubleclick.
You might also be interested in the following shortcuts:
⌘+K to clear the screen
ctrl+U to delete everything to the left of the cursor
ctrl+K to delete everything to the right of the cursor
ctrl+A to jump to the left end
ctrl+E to jump to the right end
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This adds symlinks of gnu utilities with a g prefix to /usr/local/bin/:
brew install coreutils findutils gnu-tar gnu-sed gawk gnutls gnu-indent gnu-getopt
See brew search gnu for other packages. If you want to use the default names, install the formulas with --default-names. Or for coreutils, add /usr/local/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnubin before other ...
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The problem is that “other machines” (namely PC computers) use BIOS and Macintosh computers use EFI. Rather than boring you with the details, let’s just say that in order for your “EFI” to find your Ubuntu partition, you have to perform some magic.
The instructions for doing that are everywhere, (for example: here). I believe that you need to install rEFIt ...
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No need to look for an equivalent. It's available for the Mac. You can quickly and easily install it using the excellent Homebrew package manager. Once you have Homebrew installed, just type brew install byobu from the Terminal. It'll download the source, configure and install it.
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As Sylvian mentioned, you can't run your Mac apps and display them on Linux. The best you can do is VNC. You'll see the whole screen, not just one app.
Enable a VNC password in Screen Sharing Preferences:
You can then use any VNC client application on Linux.
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Building on Ken's answer: I used fuse4x and fuse-ext2 successfully, and I recommend fuse-ext2 over ext4fuse.
ext4fuse was a hassle for me, because it requires manual compilation and has no support for fuse4x options that would allow me to set access control. fuse-ext2 provides downloadable packages, and the 0.0.7 version worked just fine. I copied a few ...
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Short Answer: YES, it's reversible, nothing is "permanent" in a hard-drive partition (other than deleting partitions and information of course). Almost always you will be able to undo what you did, although sometimes at the cost of data loss, naturally.
While you are at the terminal type:
man bless
or if you're lazy, you can read it here.
You are ...
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sudo ln -s /Users /home will work with additional configuration, but I don't think that is a good idea as you should access home via ~ in shell or $HOME. Also /home might be a Linux standard and often used in Unix but not always so better to rely on information that is guaranteed to work not something that works only most of the time if everyone has kept to ...
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Most likely no because it's proprietary technology.
Apple's remote disc functionality is provided by the host OS which has to be OS X or Windows having the proper drivers installed. You also have to have a fairly current Mac which has no built-in optical drive.
Have a look at Apple's knowledge base for a more detailed explanation: DVD or CD sharing: Using ...
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It's possible to install them in multiple partitions and multiboot. But the resulting setup will be a little "rigid".
Doing OS X and Windows is easy. Adding Linux to the mix is a little more complicated.
I suggest you do not multiboot and only install OS X as the main OS and then use a virtualization solution, like Parallels Desktop or VMware Fusion. With ...
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Time Machine is documented well at http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1427 and this discussion goes into sparse bundles and file vault so it's worth a read http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1447315
Since backups to an attached hard disk are written as plain files - that would be easier to connect to a non-Mac system. Backups to a Time Capsule are ...
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Having extensively used VMware Fusion (all the versions from 1 beta till 3.1), Parallels (from their first public release till 5.x -haven’t yet upgraded to 6) and a lot of VirtualBox versions (Although I stopped using it six months ago), I can say that for Windows both Parallels and VMware ran circles around VirtualBox in terms of features, compatibility and ...
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On Reusing Your Windows key.ppk File
The PPK file is a PuTTY-specific private key. It's not a portable private key that works with any ssh-based application. It just works with PuTTY. You need to convert it first. I've found some instructions for converting it to a proper public/private key pair here. You'll need to do this from your Windows machine.
That ...
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Use a hostname, or IP address. Not both.
The hostname will only work if there is a resolvable DNS entry.
The IP address should always work as long as you use a publicly routed or otherwise reachable one.
You don't have to specify port 22, it is the assumed default when otherwise unspecified.
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I'm not sure that I would recommend replacing them; however, you can install them to a different path and utilize them that way. Overall, if you are coming from Linux and would like access to more "generic" *nix utilities, and a system similar to apt, then I would recommend looking into Macports:
http://www.macports.org
It allows, for example, using the ...
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I look at this issue the other way (which may not help you at all as you mention video driver issues and you want full linux access to the GPU).
My take is "Which virtualization environment works best with the linux distributions I want to use?"
For me the answer is VMware Fusion, then VirtualBox and lastly Parallels. And I really haven't heard any ...
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On one hand, Linux had a considerable head start on XNU, having been first released in 1991. While I can't seem to find information on a release date for XNU, I'm quite sure it happened after Apple acquired NeXT, in 1997.
Also, the kernel design used in XNU may not be easy for some developers to get their head around. Linux is a monolithic kernel, while XNU ...
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Andrew,
The iPad and iPhone can do all the important things you mention you can do with the HTC Desire (Gmail, Calendar, IMAP mail) in several ways:
All email accounts (gmail, IMAP,
exchange, POP) are all equal players
in the Mail app, you just need to
set them up and you can google the
instructions for how to do it
directly on the phone.
Calendar is ...
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This is not a limitation of the hardware. This is a limitation of the MBR partitioning scheme required to allow Windows to boot with other non-Windows operating systems. The MBR partitioning scheme only supports 4 primary partitions.
The GUID partitioning scheme that Mac OS X uses by default is able to handle more that 4 partitions but not all operating ...
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Open Disk Utility & select the drive you want to install your OS on.
Open the Partitions tab & add 2 partitions by clicking on the
little "+", then arrange the partition size as required
Make sure to name your partitions so not to get mixed up later
Click apply and wait for your partitions to get created.
For Lion:
Run the installer & when ...
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