Comments on: Dual Booting Ubuntu 8.10 with Tiger on a Santa Rosa MacBook Pro

By: dan

dan — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:50:04 +0000

Tiger, Leopard, Bagpuss, whatever…

I agree that no OS is perfect, but I really don’t get on with dual-booting. For me, it’s got to be one-os-per-machine (it’s like one-laptop-per-child, but not quite so media-friendly).

Not that it’ll matter once everything’s running in Chrome.

By: Shahid

Shahid — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 19:23:12 +0000

Well, my good man, it’s simple – I have Tiger, which doesn’t come with Boot Camp. I can’t say whether this works better or worse than Boot Camp, but it does *work*.

Not using VMWare Fusion because I wanted to activate some of the cooler Compiz effects, which need to get right at the hardware.

OS X, while lovely, loses out to Linux in some areas (which I imagine you’ve discovered, seeing as you have one.)

By: dan

dan — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:06:48 +0000

I’m intrigued. Why is this different/better than bootcamp? Why are you dual-booting rather than “Parallel”-ing? (other than cost ) What’s wrong with OSX?

FWIW, I’m still running an always-on Ubuntu machine, which I then freenx into. I found out recently that copy&paste works across windows (i.e. copy something in OSX, paste it into something in Ubuntu). Although I might’ve been drunk at the time so I probably ought to verify it.

Anyway, I’m still trying my damned hardest to treat my macbook as something that I “use” and not something that I “fiddle with”.

Also, I note that having sold us this rEFIt, your very next post is how to fix it…