I have never owned a mac and am considering a macbook air i7. I really want to learn Linux as well and have several questions...
1) I know mac has a bash shell buried away somewhere. To learn linux can I also get the gnu utilities working on a mac (stuff like grep and awk that though now a part of the shell are commonly used in scripting)?
2) is it possible to dual boot linux? I have read that it is not officially supported in boot camp but not being supported and not being doable are very different. And if it is doable would it work just like when you get linux installed on a dual boot windows laptop?
3) if dual booting is not an option what are the best virtualization options? For example I used virtual box and vmware back in the day and hated the "tools" you had to install and update with new kernels. Is there a virtualization option that would allow for fast cloning and "just work" as opposed to having to use these tools? Btw it would be several instances of fedora or centos that I would like to run, pretty much with no gui. could this parallels program do this? and could the i7 4gb ram handle 2 linux non gui vm's running without bringing the air to a crawl?
Thank you very much I really want to get away from windows and all it's virus's and that mac book air i7 I see refurbed for $1439 is calling me.....
Thank you very much for listening
1) I know mac has a bash shell buried away somewhere. To learn linux can I also get the gnu utilities working on a mac (stuff like grep and awk that though now a part of the shell are commonly used in scripting)?
2) is it possible to dual boot linux? I have read that it is not officially supported in boot camp but not being supported and not being doable are very different. And if it is doable would it work just like when you get linux installed on a dual boot windows laptop?
3) if dual booting is not an option what are the best virtualization options? For example I used virtual box and vmware back in the day and hated the "tools" you had to install and update with new kernels. Is there a virtualization option that would allow for fast cloning and "just work" as opposed to having to use these tools? Btw it would be several instances of fedora or centos that I would like to run, pretty much with no gui. could this parallels program do this? and could the i7 4gb ram handle 2 linux non gui vm's running without bringing the air to a crawl?
Thank you very much I really want to get away from windows and all it's virus's and that mac book air i7 I see refurbed for $1439 is calling me.....
Thank you very much for listening