Amherst Cove strawberries, supplied by a friend with a surplus. One medium sized grocery bag of dug-up strawberry bed will supply a shocking number of plants... They're spaced closer together than anyone on the entire interwebs recommends, and even so, I've had to rearrange my garden plans to accomodate them.
Awesome.
like pearls on a big hosta leaf...
(have a nice weekend - everybody...)
I forgot to mention a nice program I came across while doing my research for this project. Its called rEFIt. It allows me to start up the computer and to load up other operating systems either from USB or DVD.
I installed rEFIt and then put in a USB that I was going to use to boot the OS.
That didn’t work.
So I decided to try a Live DVD instead. That didn’t work either and I started to wonder if it would matter whether or not the disk image was of 32 bit or 64 bit Linux.
I tried to burn a 64 bit version of Linux Mint 13 and got an error message about a stupid laser, then I tried it again and again.
This became annoying to me so I left it alone to cool off until the next day and tried it again.
Failure.
Ok, that’s it!!! I’m gonna use another PC to burn the .iso file to DVD.
Success!
I then turned on the Mac Pro, put the DVD into the optical drive and then restarted. I was happy to see the rEFIt symbol show up on the screen and then I got the option to run Mac or Linux. So I chose Linux like mom’s choose Jiff and it started to load up. I had the option of installing Linux Mint 13 Mate edition or to just try it without installing. I chose the latter as I wasn’t ready just yet to commit to the install and I really wasn’t sure as I mentioned here whether or not I would put it onto a separate drive.
Here’s what I ended up with:
Beautiful isn’t it!!!!
I started opening up different files such as PDF’s, and videos and I liked the fact that the only issue I came across was that I wasn’t able to get any sound. That was a bummer indeed. I knew it had nothing to do with not having the right codecs as that was a problem I had experienced in Ubuntu a few years ago and Linux Mint comes with the codecs available by default.
The problem was that I was unable to use the speakers that are built into the Mac Pro, so I ended up connecting some external speakers to the back output port and I was able to get sound.
I still want to get sound directly from the speaker so I will continue to find a way for it to be recognized by Linux.
Like I mentioned above, I did not install Linux Mint onto the Mac Pro I just wanted to give it a trial run.
I know I know I haven’t forgotten to tell you of whether or not I will install Linux Mint onto a separate hard drive but I will.
I promise
Thanks to the following sites that were very helpful in getting me started with this:
http://mindbat.com/2008/01/how-to-install-ubuntu-on-mac-pro/
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacPro
Today I would like to do a comparison of Linux, apple, and windows, operating systems. First, I will take a look at Windows. As is obvious from my previous blogs, I don't like Windows, so I will keep this section short. Windows has many problems including: weak to viruses and hackers, a lack of stability, a long start-up time, expensive, and (in Windows 8) a hard to use interface.
Today I would like to do a comparison of Linux, apple, and windows, operating systems. First, I will take a look at Windows. As is obvious from my previous blogs, I don't like Windows, so I will keep this section short. Windows has many problems including: weak to viruses and hackers, a lack of stability, a long start-up time, expensive, and (in Windows 8) a hard to use interface.
penguin Tux, the Linux Mascot (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
As soon as I got a Mac Pro I desired to install Linux onto it. At first, I worked with Virtualbox and while that was a pretty god experience and I love that program, I was wasn’t satisfied with that.
What I wanted was to actually install Linux onto the hard drive. I own the Mac Pro 1.1 that came out in 2006 and it came with a 250 GB hard drive, so I would rather leave Mac OS on that Hard drive and install Linux on a larger one.
In fact, a much larger one, and I am thinking about multibooting it with Windows.
The reason I want to do that is that I want to be able to use programs that are not cross-platform with that huge 30 inch cinema display that I have. For example I already own several copies of Sim City 4 Deluxe so I want to play that on this machine.
I may even get a separate hard drive for each OS. Who knows what I am going to end up doing LOL!!
In the next part I will actually try to load up a Live DVD and see how that goes and then I will hopefully be able to fully install Linux Mint 13.
As I stated in a previous blog Linux is more secure than Windows. I would like to state the reasons why this is so in this post.
The first reason why Linux is more secure is that it is almost virus free! This so, partly because Windows still holds roughly 85% to 90% of the market. Thus, a virus for Windows can hit most computer users.
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