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  1. N

    MacBook Air only boots to Linux

    My wife spilled some water on her MacBook Air (early-2015) a few weeks ago. This killed the battery, but after letting it dry out I found the machine still powers up. However, it gets stuck during boot on the black screen with the Apple logo and progress bar. The progress bar eventually reaches...
  2. slitherjef

    Going back to windows 10?

    A while back I put together a fairly decent windows 10 build, the idea was to dual boot Linux but windows took over, I removed the m.2 drive that contained windows and went with a standard SSD for a straight Linux build. Well, as unproductive on Windows I was and how naggy and annoying windows...
  3. slitherjef

    Using Linux for photo workflow

    Just wondering if anyone here actually uses Linux (Ubuntu, Mint etc) for photography. I am kind of not liking some of the current offerings from the other operating systems so I thought I would try Linux for this task. If you do, what all do you use? Software etc? How are you finding the work...
  4. F

    Sierra - Is it safe to make soft links in /

    I run various lnux Virtual Machines on my macbook for different purposes. Sometimes I write scripts that work on both MacOS and Linux. Its not essential and easy to get around (testing uname) but its pretty neat to write scripts that just work without conditional code for each OS. On my linux...
    • fredfrog
    • Thread
    • linux mac programming ubuntu unix virtualbox
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: macOS
  5. Jessica Fa Metadata

    Emulating a Power Mac G4 in QEMU?

    Hello, I was woundering if any one knows how to run QEMU so it emulates a G4? I have had issues in the past and there seems to be no good guid on how to do it. I have also tried GUI tools like Aqemu and none of them even see the QEMU binarys. The only other one that has seen the QEMU is...
  6. jblagden

    Icons as Folders, Need to Convert

    Hi guys, A while back, I found some Star Trek folder icons on a website - I think it was IconFactory. To my dismay, the icons are formatted as though they're folders. This limits their utility to OS X. I'd like to be able to use the icons on Linux, but I can't because they're formatted as...
  7. slitherjef

    Linux and windows 10

    Yeah so, windows 10 is really starting to annoy me and I don't think I can trust it due to forced updates and some other issues, I have barely installed anything on the machine if that tells you anything, long and short I think I am going to give Linux a try on the box I know I can boot a live...
  8. simon lefisch

    Installing CentOS 7 (Linux) On Mac Pro 5,1 Hardware

    Hey everyone, I apologize if this has already been answered. I browsed around and couldn't find a def answer so thought I'd ask here. I recently acquired a 5,1 Mac Pro and upgraded the processor from W3565 to an X5690 for pretty cheap. While I love macOS (I have a 15" MBP), I dont feel it's...
  9. F

    Dualbooting Linux on a School Macbook Air

    My school recently bought Macbook Airs for all of it's students. I would prefer to use linux on it, but there are some macOS specific programs that we will use. The problem is that my account is not administrator, and there is also a firmware lock which appeared after a program called FileWave...
  10. WhiteKnightMac

    Resolved Dualboot Mac/Linux

    Heading out to the Falklands next January and want to set-up a Dualboot system with MacOS Sierra and Linux distro KDE neon. The main OS will be KDE neon with the MacOS as a backup for incompatible software and AirPlay functionality. All media i.e. Videos and Music will be stored on an external...
  11. seitsme

    Pc / mac problem: Split&join .aa .ab ... files

    hello, About 3 months ago, i said goodbye to my last ELCAP 10.x ppc and bought a secondhand win 7 64b laptop. On my mac at that time, i used a program, cannot remember which though, maybe macpar ? to split a 4GB file into 4 pieces, to be joined after I transfered it to my laptop. The program...
  12. C

    How to resize Macintosh HD from deleted Linux Partition

    Hi, Probably some people have this problem and get it fixed.I couldnt find it here and probably slightly different from my problem. I have 25GB Linux Partition, 300MB Recovery HD and the rest is Macintosh HD partition. When i delete Linux partition using Disk Utility, automatically the...
  13. Payload

    Lightweight linux distro for MBA 2015?

    Hello all, Which Linux distro would you recommend for a Macbook Air 2015 with 8 GB of RAM? I am considering the following factors: - Decent battery life - Low RAM usage (because I'm going to do resources-intensive work with a game engine) - Hardware compatibility (keyboard/screen backlight...
  14. Z

    I Can't Boot Into Linux

    OK, so, after I install Ubuntu (it could theoretically be Lubuntu, or Kubuntu as well), and everything is all supposedly well and good, it doesn't show up in the boot menu, it doesn't show up in Startup Disk, and I don't even know any commands or anything to manually start yaboot from Open...
  15. Tonic76

    Triple boot accident (Help needed)

    I need some help with possible triple booting jam that I created. 1) I had succesfully installed Boot Camp and Windows 10 to my Macbook Pro. THEN When I was logged to OSX 2) I tried to create bootable LINUX (Ubuntu-16.04.2) USB stick as I had done before using the Unetbootin tool Because...
  16. bobesch

    Any Linux with VirtualPC7/Leopard ?

    This idea drives me nuts! - To run a slick Linux-Distro within VirtualPC7 which is also able to run a Dropbox-Client or even Netflix. I did not succeed with AntiX and Debian7 'cause the damn Cursor didn't work within the VM. Read about someone getting Mandrake10 to run within VirtualPC7 but...
    • bobesch
    • Thread
    • dropbox linux powerpc ppc virtual pc
    • Replies: 16
    • Forum: PowerPC Macs
  17. T

    Unable to boot to windows after deleting linux partition

    Hi. I have a macbook pro, which I had tripplebooted. After deleting my linux partition I was unable to boot into windows. Windows is installed using bootcamp. When I try to boot to windows it only shows a blinking cursor in the top left screen. I have tried the /Bootrec.exe /FixMbr, Bootrec.exe...
  18. J

    Linux distro for 32-bit MacBook Pro?

    I have a MacBook Pro 1,2 with a 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo processor and 2GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM. I'm starting to have software compatibility issues and would like to extend the machine's life by installing Linux--on a partition, to start with; perhaps later I'll get rid of OS X. I've partitioned...
  19. RootBeerMan

    Kingston 2 TB Flash Drive Announced

    Now this is a winner! A 2 TB flash drive with USB 3.0 and extreme weather capabilities. I could see this replacing more than a few external HD's, if the price is right. I'd certainly give it a try. I've used Kingston RAM over the years and never had any issues, hopefully this product will be...
  20. X

    I can no longer access an external HDD formated with (parted) on Linux

    I have a SATA hard drive that I connect to my Macbook using a USB-SATA cable. Everything used to work fine, before I cloned my OSX to the external HDD, and used Diskutility to restore recovery partition. Then I formatted the external HDD using (parted) on Linux, doing these instructions: >...
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