As Genna mentioned previously in this thread, virtualbox does the same
thing as vmware and is free. The downside is that the GUI is not very
accessible, but you don't really need the GUI as it's all configurable
from terminal. In other words you would use terminal to get virtualbox
up and running with your unix of choice and then you could do what you
want inside that virtual machine. All that said, just remember that OSX
is not Linux. It's based on BSD, which also is not Linux.
CB
On 12/11/14, 3:16 PM, deedra waters wrote:
I like the bratty idea sad though that our display is half defective and not
fixable. I’m thinking vmware is going to end up being my way to go. I just
don’t want to pay a small fortune for vmware when all i want is 1 linux vm
that’s useable.
deedra waters
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On Dec 11, 2014, at 12:13 PM, Cheryl Homiak <[email protected]> wrote:
The terminal is fine if one has a braille display and can use brltty, for which
I know I should write a README but honestly I haven't been able to find time to
do it! If nobody else does it first, I truly do plan to eventually. But in my
opinion, without brltty, the terminal isn't much fun though it can be used for
entering commands without too much trouble. With brltty, I just turn voiceover
off if using the terminal for any length of time because I've had issues with
terminal crashing and it doesn't seem to happen if voiceover isn't on.
I did run vmware with linux for a time and it's doable. I also fixed up an old
powerpc Mac mini with wheezy for kind of a backup for my linux needs.
Having homebrew and/or Macports does much broaden your options in terminal also.
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On Dec 11, 2014, at 1:43 PM, deedra waters <[email protected]> wrote:
Well, first of all i’m more or less happy with what i got in terms of the
macbook air. it’s portable and light which is good. I was able to sit in the er
for several hours waiting for my turn to see the doctor and was actually not
bored there for once.
I had brought the macbook and a usb headset. Usually when i land in the
hospital they end up admitting me because of some of my medical issues. This
time though I wasn’t admitted but had i been i’d have books at least!
Either way the 10ish hours passed rarely quickly with something to do. I was
really annoyed the fact that i couldn’t get my media i’d brought to play for
the life of me…. Instead i watched episodes of days of our lives from the
iTunes store *snicker*
From a linux point of view though things are quite different. for example tail
-n 50 doesn’t work across platforms in terms of the mac and linux with the mac
you have to type something like tail -50 to get what you want. Little things
like that ended up requiring the linux/unix skills of my fiancé to get certain
of my scripts and some other python tools to work properly.
I’m highly unsatisfied with the terminal though I mean it does simple mac type
things fine and works well enough for that but unless i buy vmware fusion or
unless there’s a cheaper way of getting a linux vm up and running for those
tasks that just don’t do well in the mac terminal
The speech interrupts are highly annoying in the terminal i’d kill for a way
to turn those off and on. I also ended up buying a few apps that just make
things simpler for me. Take the my medical app. With as sick as i am, that app
is almost a needed thing. I’ve been working to get as much of my medical
records as possible put into the app so that way if worse comes to worse all i
have to do is turn voiceover off, they should be able to access and read the
info then give the thing back to me. In theory at least it sounds like a great
idea. I’m probably going to have to find a way of getting the data to export to
a readable format such as pdf for them.
Mac journal i also found useful for several things.
Over all, i like what i got. I still have a ton to learn but i think that that
will come with time and practice. Now to hunt down iTunes podcasts.:)
deedra waters
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