If you know a U of M student, you can have them purchase it for around $30+ Perry On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Samael wrote: > 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 >> > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list