i am forced to get free stuff right now due to huge financial constraints. me and my wife are both in school (she is going to le cordon bleu, sooo expensive) and our 2 kids get all of the cash i can scrounge up. they are awfully cute kids so i have to forgive them for using my hard earned cash for their diapers and food. ^ ^ i am going to install virtual box right now and give it a go. (give it a go, been listening to too many british speakers latley) On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:36 PM, <dutchman_mn at charter.net> wrote: > Your best bet is to purchase the actual Mac OSX. I did, burned it to an > ISO image and went from there. I had nothing but trouble with VMWare, that > is why I ended up using Virtual Box. You can run Virtual Box on a Linux > distro, I am using Windows 7 as it is a work laptop. If you go down the > hardware route, the challenge would be find something that can run one of > the later versions of OSX Leopard/Snow Leopard. > > Perry > > > > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Samael wrote: > > i tried downloading a mac os a few times before using a windows box. i >> have >> vmware workstaion. i just couldn't get the disk to burn. it would go >> from >> a gig or something like that to 1 mb then errors; kinda weird, never >> figured >> that one out. i think software would be fine though i would have to admit >> a >> actual mac would be a little more interesting; not quite sure why. i am >> going to school for computer science not computer engineering. so, either >> would be a great help! i have a dedicated linux machine now that i would >> like to learn how to use xen or something similar. anyway, in closing, >> software would be just fine... >> >> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:12 PM, <dutchman_mn at charter.net> wrote: >> >> Do you need to learn hardware or software? The reason I ask is that I >>> have >>> Mac OSX 10.6.3 running on Virtual Box 4.x (on Windows 7). So you can >>> work >>> with the OS outside of the hardware. I did it in order to learn how do >>> develop in Objective-C for iOS. >>> >>> Perry Hoekstra >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Samael wrote: >>> >>> does anyone have a mac they can spare? i would like to become familiar >>> with them to prepare myself better for school. >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> *tclug-list at mn-linux.org* >>> >>> *http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list*< >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list> >>> >>> <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>> >>> >>> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110224/1aeb63f7/attachment-0001.html>