August 22, 2007

Running Ubuntu on my Mac using VMWare

Filed under: TMUP-Blog — Victor Cajiao @ 8:41 pm

I asked my friend Kreg Steppe today if I could download Ubuntu and install it on my VMWare Fusion. He sent me a link to an already configured Virtual Applicance, specifically Ubuntu 7.04

Now, before loading this virtual appliance using VMWare Fusion, I could only spell Ubuntu. The download and install took 10 minutes. I started VMWare Fusion, chose Ubuntu instead of my Windows XP virtual machine, and the installation started. Five minutes later I was at a log-in screen. The user name did not work so I got a hold Kreg who told me the default user name and password.

I then logged in and that was it. I was running a new operating system while still running OS X, and had a new toy to learn about. A completely configured Linux machine that I could learn about and play with. It had Firefox, Open Office and many other games, accessories built in. VMWare Fusion made this very very easy.

So if you have VMWare Fusion, try out some virtual machines. Exploration is such a neat part of being a MacGeek. Ubuntu, Ubuntu , Ubuntu. Boy I like saying that, and typing it.

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  • http://www.pianoforteonline.co.uk Ronnie

    You should install Automatix on Ubuntu… it consists on a series of automated scripts that install all sorts of applications, including google earth, picasa, wine, skype, VLC media player, and many more…
    What Automatix does is to kick Ubuntu into gear… I’ve installed it on my old PC (under ubuntu of course) and so far its been great….
    http://www.getautomatix.com/

  • http://www.typicalmacuser.com Administrator

    Very nice I’ll try that for sure. I love OS X but it’s fun to play and to be able to play with other VM’s.

    Thanks
    Victor

  • http://www.malpastowers.com Gazmaz

    Hi Victor I’m determined to listen to your live podcast this coming Sunday but it’s early over here in the UK so I’ll have to have a lie in the next day!
    Any how I heard that you had downloaded Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly everything, well we have just come back from holiday in the French Alps and listened to that on route back (I’d bought the CD’s not through Audible I’m afraid) but I have to say to anyone else that this is a great listen, I also have the book but have not read it all yet, there is more than the audible book but both are great. Hope you enjoy it, and I can recomend it.

  • http://www.malpastowers.com Gazmaz

    Sorry didnb’t quite keep on subject here!

  • Jerome

    Are you Canadian or something? Your English is really bad! Not to put you down or anything… but in your most recent episode, I believe you said “it’s wednesday, August twenty-secondTH…” there’s no ‘TH’ at the end of the word “second.” hahah cracks me up.

  • http://www.typicalmacuser.com Administrator

    I was born in Cuba and English is not my first language. I came to the U.S. when I was nine. I do the best I can, really. You should hear how much I mess up in my real life. My wife and I usually laugh it off. If I took it seriously, I’d put the mic away and quit. However I believe what I give in quality makes up the TH’s in my English. I’m glad I make you laugh too. It’s no extra charge. Oh wait, there is no charge.

  • http://www.malpastowers.com Gazmaz

    I bet Jerome you’d laugh even more if you heard us trying to speak in Cuban lolz

 

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