What about just install it to bootcam instead? How often that you need to run Linux and Mac OS side by side...
Just my thoughts Regards Joanne On 28/01/2015, Erik Heil <ehe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello again, > FFirst of all, thanks for all the responses to my other questions. Really > > helped a lot > I was thinking of trying to get a full-blown GNOME desktop environment > running on this machine, as I am familiar with that environment. Doing some > > research, I can see that their is an open source version of the Xorg X11 > Window system that I can install. Ideally, I would love the greatest and > latest stuff viable from the GNOME Project which at present, is Gnome > 3.4.X. However, I think we have some problems. If I'm wrong in these > assumptions, feel free to correct me where necessary. If memory serves, > GNOME 3.x has some dependencies on systems, which is Linux-specific. That > is, their is at present, no BSD-compatible system implementation. I don't > believe that system needs to be running, however I do believe that core > system library functions are now dependencies. Does it make sense to > install a copy of VMware Fusion and install a copy of Debian into the guest > > VM? If I do go this route, is their anything I need to be concerned about > in Fusion specifically? Note that I have a license for VMware Workstation. > > Will I have to purchase an additional license for Fusion? > Second question > Does it make sense to install the GNU-specific tools? In my opinion, they > are simply just better than the implementations provided by BSD. I could > install them out of the way, into for example, /usr/local/bin, as that way, > > it won't conflict with software that is under version control via whatever > package management system that OS X uses to manage updates. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
