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Linux on Mac
By Trishus | April 13, 2008
Why?
When I was the principal at Parnngurr Community School, the satellite internet connection had periods of being unreliable. We wanted to do blogging with the kids but not knowing whether or not the internet would be functioning made it really hard on the teachers. This combined with wanting community to have control over content, made me look for someway of doing it without internet connection…. locally on our server. Alexander Hayes came out to Parnngurr and introduced me the the joys of Linux… a word press blog and two media wiki run locally on our server. This allowed blogging classes to run even when our internet was down, it also allowed me to show the community school’s council and parents what the kids had been doing and get approval before it was published online. It could then be exported to the blog on the internet.
As I was often outside of internet areas, with the help of Jim Sligar, we installed virtual box and fedora 7 on my pc laptop that enable me to play with the school wikis while I was on holidays.
After this really positive experience with both local and online blogs and wikis, I wanted to recreate this experience on my new mac.
Windows on Mac
Also I have software to run my gadgets that only has software for windows, so having a virtual machine for windows will be very handy.
Vitrual machine number 1
I tried the 15 day trial of parallels: this worked great installing a windows os but I had trouble loading fedora 7… It took many goes of it crashing at various points. I was going to download ubuntu to give that a go but my trial ran out. As I was unsure that it was going to work with another type of Linix I though that I would trail another VM.
Vitrual machine number 2
I have installed a 30 day trial version of VMware Fusion and fedora 7 had load up no problem….. I have also installed windows.
I can drag and drop into the windows virtual box… but not into the linux window.