[aklug] Re: Mac + linux

On 09/29/11 10:27, Tim Johnson wrote:

>> +1
>>
>> With OS X and Macports I have no need to hassle with dual booting.
>>
>> I've got a Mac mini, a hackintoshed Dell Mini 9 and a beige box (black
>> really) hackintosh at home. I'm in FreeBSD all day at $job, and OS X
>> under the hood is so familiar, the *nix tools are so easily available
>> and it's so generally stable that I don't feel the need to dual boot.
> Oh, that is great to hear. I believe that I am being talked out of
> using a dual-boot configuration. What amount of RAM do you have on
> the mini? And, could you explain what you mean by 'hackintoshed
> Dell mini'?
> thanks
>

Our Mini is a 1st generation PowerPC unit and I believe it only has 2G
of RAM. It's the kids default workstation and for that use it's perfect.

Hackintosh? It's a generic term for a non-Apple PC that has been made
to run OS X. This is pretty trivial given the correct hardware
selection. In a nutshell the trick is using a bootloader that emulates
the Apple EFI environment.

Google will return tons of hits, but here is a good explanation and
introduction:

http://lifehacker.com/5841604/the-always-up+to+date-guide-to-building-a-hackintosh

-- 
Tom
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Tom Simes                                       simestd@netexpress.com
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