Running Windows or Linux on your Mac

October 14, 2008 by Ross McKillop

One of the major benefits of having a Mac is that it can also run other Operating Systems. Now I know what you’re thinking - I love OS X - why run anything else? Well, there are times when some of us need to run software that isn’t available for OS X yet. Or maybe you want to give Linux a try and see what all the fuss is about. Perhaps you’re a gamer, and don’t want to settle for the smaller lineup of games that have been ported/created for OS X. The simple fact is, it’s not only easy to install other Operating Systems on your Mac, using virtualization software like Parallels Desktop or VMware Fusion, it’s easily reversible - with no harm at all to your OS X data.

Because I’ve previously done a ton of posts on how to run other Operating Systems on OS X for my other site, rather than rehash them all here, I’m going to include links to those tutorials. Here goes:

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One Response to “Running Windows or Linux on your Mac”

Christian on April 30th, 2009 9:06 am

I recommend VirtualBox. It’s free and works pretty well. I currently have Windows 7 and Kubuntu 9.04 on my Mac.