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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: how to install dual boot on snow leopard
Date: 19 Feb 2015 17:11:19 GMT
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On 2015-02-19, Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Feb 2015 14:47:37 -0500, Jolly Roger wrote
> (in article <ck9n2pF1kl5U2@mid.individual.net>):
>
>> On 2015-02-14, Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> wrote:
>>> Does a dual-boot setup require a reinstall of snow leopard or can the
>>> disk be repartitioned with out reinstall?
>>> 
>>> I am considering putting linux on an imac but itunes doesn't exist on
>>> linux AFAIK
>>> 
>>> so dual boot might work to got to macosx for itunes
>> 
>> Running Linux in a virtual machine is a far better option, IMO. No need
>> to reboot, and you can do it for free with VirtualBox. Also, since Mac
>> OS X is Unix, you should consider whether you really need Linux to begin
>> with since the vast majority of "Linux" stuff runs just fine in Mac OS X.
>
> Don't you have to recompile it? I was curious to try out Gimp but
> didn't have the time to figure out how to recompile it.

While most popular Unix open source software projects are easily
compiled for Mac OS X, the most popular titles have pre-compiled Mac OS
X binaries available. GIMP is just one such project. You can download
pre-compiled binaries here:

<http://www.gimp.org/downloads/>

> Something called "Fink"?

Fink is a Mac OS X open source package manager and associated library of
ported software using Debian Linux tools, similar to MacPorts and
others, which may be useful to people who are not comfortable compiling
their own stuff.

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