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This first post is a little premature, since my IMac is not scheduled for delivery until 21 Dec. Apparently Apple doesn't build machines until they are ordered. But, it gives a few weeks of learning time before liftoff. The problem that I have right now is that I am gathering a ton of Mac info, but no experience or hardware to tie it to so some things don't quite click yet.
My current system is a fairly nice Linux box, but with nowhere near the spectacular display or power that I saw on the IMac in the store. I have far too many years invested in Linux/Unix to just completely jump entirely to a new OS, but, it was demonstrated to me that an IMac can also run Linux, and Windows, not that I care about the latter.
Doing research, I have found that there are two ways to run foreign OS's on a Mac. I believe that Parallel was what was demonstrated in the Apple store, and it ran Windows inside of OSX. I was told that Linux would do the same so Parallel is apparently some sort of VM application.
I have found another called Boot Camp, which seems to be what Linux calls Grub, or a boot manager. That is, you can boot an OS while leaving the other(s) totally inaccessable.
Muddying the water somewhat is that OSX is built on top of FBSD, or a derivative of it, and apparently Unix programs can just run natively. At the store I was shown the console box and it responded to every Unix command that I tried from a command line. Unfortunately, no one there knew much about it.
Questions. Which do Mac users use for accessing another OS? Boot camp or Parallel or ???? Or do you not even bother with other operating systems? Do users even decend into the Unix insides? Or does the GUI fill all needs?
My current system is a fairly nice Linux box, but with nowhere near the spectacular display or power that I saw on the IMac in the store. I have far too many years invested in Linux/Unix to just completely jump entirely to a new OS, but, it was demonstrated to me that an IMac can also run Linux, and Windows, not that I care about the latter.
Doing research, I have found that there are two ways to run foreign OS's on a Mac. I believe that Parallel was what was demonstrated in the Apple store, and it ran Windows inside of OSX. I was told that Linux would do the same so Parallel is apparently some sort of VM application.
I have found another called Boot Camp, which seems to be what Linux calls Grub, or a boot manager. That is, you can boot an OS while leaving the other(s) totally inaccessable.
Muddying the water somewhat is that OSX is built on top of FBSD, or a derivative of it, and apparently Unix programs can just run natively. At the store I was shown the console box and it responded to every Unix command that I tried from a command line. Unfortunately, no one there knew much about it.
Questions. Which do Mac users use for accessing another OS? Boot camp or Parallel or ???? Or do you not even bother with other operating systems? Do users even decend into the Unix insides? Or does the GUI fill all needs?