I want to hear more about installing Leopard on a PC.
Has anybody in this forum done this or know somebody who has?
To run your Windoze programs, you can run them in a vmware windows guest on a Leopard host. But for overall productivity, you can use Leopard native.
The underlying OS of Leopard is BSD unix.
And has anybody seen Linux Mint? It’s free, and provides a Vista-like “experience” without the Vista headaches.
I've been running Ubuntu 7.4 on a small 7.4Gb partition in addition to Windows XP. Does Mint come with the pre-installed applications, such as OpenOffice, as Ubuntu does? I know Mint is built on Ubuntu. I ask, because the manual suggests a 10Gb partition because of future software. I really don't want to resize that drive at this time, but would like to try Mint. I'm impressed with Ubuntu, but really don't like the terminal/sudo experience for handling many tasks. I want to see what Mint has to offer.
I have Mint 4.0 installed on a test machine. It’s fairly nice (I like it better than Ubuntu), although I don’t like the Gnome desktop. It installed smoothly alongside my Mepis partition. Haven’t tried any of the wireless setup stuff. I installed VirtualBox and have a virtual WinXP installation running. There’s a front-end to Wine called Wine-Doors that only sort-of works (haven’t had too much luck with Wine anyway, so it doesn’t surprise me). A couple of other applications won’t start for some reason (haven’t tried to figure out why yet); other than that, it’s pretty OK.
There are many sites which can tell you how to do this. I have done it. I have an Acer running both Windows XP and OSX. It is not allowed under the license agreement however to run OSX on anything but Mac hardware. But there are those legal types who say if you paid for the software, what you do with it is your business. Choose for yourself.
Sitting, waiting and watching a whirly twirl!
With 2 gig and a dual core... that has been my experience!
3.2 with 640k was a bit faster.