morphmet wrote: > For macs > > > If you have an intel processor mac, then use boot camp, and make > your system a dual boot, so that you can run Windows natively. That > way you only need to enjoy the bugs that Windows itself possesses, and > not conflicts between software running virtually. > > Dennis, have you ported your software to Darwin (the Mac variant of > BSD)?
The new version is 100% Java and supports the JOGL rendering pipeline (on the Mac), so it should work in that magical place called "Theory". One or two days work to test/release (one dialog to do, document editing, and packaging), but travel and general turmoil means it might be a week or two before I can find those two days. I have a Mac person waiting for the initial testing, and I just added direct export to R data tables. The initial release is the visualization component. Then, I start on GPA, etc. All data structures (for now) and many manipulation functions are already in place. -dslice > > Otherwise natively on a mac, you can use some of the R libraries from > Ian Dryden (Shapes package). > > Cheers > > Ian > > On 10/10/2007, morphmet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Curious. This is the second time this week this question has come across >> my screen. Here is a summary of my experience: >> >> 1) For several years I have been happily running WinXP in a VMWare >> Workstation 4.0 virtual machine on top of Linux. No problems with any of >> the morphometrics software. Also, there is no significant performance >> reduction running in a virtual machine for the data sets with which I >> regularly work. >> >> 2) For a while, I tried VirtualPC on a powerbook and, if I recall >> correctly, there were no problems running the morphometrics packages. >> However, since VirtualPC had to emulate an Intel chip on a Motorola >> architecture, performance was slow. That should not be such a problem >> now since the newer Apples run Intel chips. >> >> 3) Out of curiosity, I installed a number of OSs on VirtualBox virtual >> machines the other week: WinXP, openSuse 10.2, ubuntu 7.?, DOS (I have >> to try GRF-ND now). There were some initial stability problems, but the >> seem to have worked themselves out after a few reboots and things were >> running well enough for me to install and test the new Morpheus under >> each Linux OS without problem. >> >> 4) I know nothing of Parallels. >> >> For me, I decided the stability and a feature that allows the virtual >> machine's screen to expand to fill my laptop display made it worth the >> small educational investment in VMWare. The latter is important for my >> lectures. VirtualBox does not do this, but looked like a good (and free) >> option otherwise. >> >> What does this Linux stuff have to do with Apples? At its heart, the >> Apple OS is a version of Unix. So the observations above should apply to >> Apples. >> >> I would recommend the student try VirtualBox first since it is a freebie. >> >> For more info: >> VMWARE >> http://www.vmware.com >> (current workstation version 6.0, very stable, Mac version is Fusion) >> >> VIRTUALBOX >> http://www.virtualbox.org >> open-source freebie. >> Here's a pic running on a Mac: >> http://http://www.virtualbox.org/attachment/wiki/Screenshots/VirtualBox_OSX_beta_255c.png >> >> VirtualPC >> http://www.connectix.com/ >> Haven't tried this in a long time. >> >> Parallels >> http://www.parallels.com/ >> No experience. >> >> -dslice >> >> morphmet wrote: >>> In order to follow the (green) book by Zelditch et al. closely, a >>> student new to geometric morphometrics would like to try a Windows >>> emulator --VMware or Parallels--to use the Windows software on her Mac. >>> >>> Can anyone comment on either of these emulators and their use with this >>> software? Are there any incompatibilities or glitches we should be alert >>> to? (I understand that the emulators are being upgraded with new >>> versions on a very frequent basis, so it's possible that problems are >>> actively being remedied.) >>> >> -- >> Dennis E. Slice >> Department of Anthropology >> University of Vienna >> ======================================================== >> >> >> >> -- >> Replies will be sent to the list. >> For more information visit http://www.morphometrics.org >> >> > > -- Dennis E. Slice Department of Anthropology University of Vienna ======================================================== -- Replies will be sent to the list. For more information visit http://www.morphometrics.org
