Hello, Wondeful suggestion, though with Bootcamp, you'll have to repartition the drive, wich IMHO is overkill for this situation. So, it looks like VMware is the easiest way to accomplish this task. Not to mention, its a lot quicker. That's if Linux is even supported in a Bootcamp environment. As I recall, its designed to aid the installation of Windows, and we don't know if it modifies the system EFI partition. Simply too many unknowns.
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Joanne Chua <shuang.an...@gmail.com> wrote: > What about just install it to bootcam instead? > How often that you need to run Linux and Mac OS side by side... > > Just my thoughts > > Regards > Joanne > > On 28/01/2015, Erik Heil <ehe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello again, > > FFirst of all, thanks for all the responses to my other questions. > Really > > > > helped a lot > > I was thinking of trying to get a full-blown GNOME desktop environment > > running on this machine, as I am familiar with that environment. Doing > some > > > > research, I can see that their is an open source version of the Xorg X11 > > Window system that I can install. Ideally, I would love the greatest and > > latest stuff viable from the GNOME Project which at present, is Gnome > > 3.4.X. However, I think we have some problems. If I'm wrong in these > > assumptions, feel free to correct me where necessary. If memory serves, > > GNOME 3.x has some dependencies on systems, which is Linux-specific. > That > > is, their is at present, no BSD-compatible system implementation. I don't > > believe that system needs to be running, however I do believe that core > > system library functions are now dependencies. Does it make sense to > > install a copy of VMware Fusion and install a copy of Debian into the > guest > > > > VM? If I do go this route, is their anything I need to be concerned > about > > in Fusion specifically? Note that I have a license for VMware > Workstation. > > > > Will I have to purchase an additional license for Fusion? > > Second question > > Does it make sense to install the GNU-specific tools? In my opinion, they > > are simply just better than the implementations provided by BSD. I could > > install them out of the way, into for example, /usr/local/bin, as that > way, > > > > it won't conflict with software that is under version control via > whatever > > package management system that OS X uses to manage updates. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "MacVisionaries" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
