Fired up after the Open Source Developer’s conference in Brisbane, I decided to try dual booting my recent iMac with Ubuntu 9.10 and MacOS X.

As we await the release of FreeBSD 8.0 to deliver a larger operating system comparison, we have carried out a fresh round of tests comparing Mac OS X 10.6.2 and Ubuntu 9.10 (both x86 and x86_64 editions) under a variety of tests.

Can’t decide which operating system you want to run on your MacBook? The newest Macs allow you to boot up from Windows or Mac OS X using the included Boot Camp disk-partitioning software.

And I don’t just mean for geeks. I mean a real, viable alternative to Windows for many users despite the apparent quality of both Windows 7 and Server 2008.

Which is the best operating system — Windows 7, OS X 10.6 or Ubuntu 9.10? The question is almost pointless.

October is a big month for computer nerds. Windows 7 (October 22nd) and Ubuntu 9.10 (October 29th) will both be released. Two major updates to two of the biggest operating systems around. But which should you use? Which is the best for your particular needs?

Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala” will be out in October and does have some performance improvements as our earlier tests have shown, but Canonical engineers have not been exclusively focusing on performance optimizations with this release. Can the Karmic Koala outperform Snow Leopard?

Here’s a switcher story of a different color: from the Mac, to Linux. It’s one thing to talk about operating systems and free software in theory, or to hear from died-in-the-wool advocates of their platform of choice

Four years ago, Ubuntu Linux replaced XP as my main desktop OS at the office and at home. Most things work fine, with some major annoyances left. Now that we want to upgrade our computers at home, these annoyances feel big enough that I now consider switching to a Mac.

In this beginner article, Ben Mackie provides step-by-step instructions for installing Ubuntu Linux through VirtualBox on an Intel Mac running either Tiger or Leopard. Hopefully this article will encourage even the most cautious Mac users to enjoy the benefits of a Mac with Linux.

Bypassing Windows altogether, Mark Shuttleworth has stated that OS X is the operating system to beat. With Ubuntu’s 9.04 now in wide distribution, we look at how it stacks up with the competition.

We have already looked at the performance of Ubuntu’s Jaunty Jackalope, and even found it to perform with old hardware, but how does it now compete with Mac OS X? We have more benchmarks this morning to continue this performance investigation.

Lin-X aims to follow the Ubuntu distribution on which it’s based but look as much like Apple’s OS X as possible.

I’m thinking about getting a US keyboard as this will be closer to the OSX keyboard thus making it less annoying for me to having to think where double-quotes and tilde are, as for now at least I’m probably going to continue using OSX at work until I can get to a good point to [...]

I’ve been using Linux as my primary development environment for a number of months now, despite being an abject Mac fanboy. Why?

For quite some time I use my Ubuntu machine as a file and backup server for all Macs in my network which is perfectly accessible from the Finder in Mac OS X.

The main pillar to Apple’s recent rise has clearly been image. Their GUI has been recognized as something significant. Therefore, I wondered, how easy would it be to mimic OSX’s GUI in Ubuntu

Stefan Hellkvist will describe how to fix some problems when running Ubuntu as a guest OS in VirtualBox on a Mac OS X host

Recently I’ve been thinking about the comments made a while back by Mark Shuttleworth that he wants to push the linux interface to be on par with Apple’s Mac OS X. This statement made me relive an old thought that maybe the great Steve Jobs picked the wrong open source guts to put a proprietary [...]

If you have a Mac and Fusion this article will get you started with a safe way to install Ubuntu without having to mutli-boot your Mac.

Want to run Ubuntu Linux within Mac OS X for free — without paying for Parallels or VMWare? Our step-by-step tutorial will have you up and running in no time!

Linux grows up less than Mac OS, Why? It is free, secure, portable and (relatively) easy of use (Ubuntu). The most important reasons are: Mac still offers a better user experience (as Mark Shuttleworth admits) and not enought commercial software are avalaible for Linux.

One of my projects over the recent holiday was to rebuild the home network. Working on a home network is a different sort of beast than working on a network for a company. There are different challenges to be addressed. After research, I settled on the use of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (”Hardy Heron”) for the [...]

That post was written six months ago and many things have changed during this period of time: release of Ubuntu Intrepid, newer Mac4Lin theme, better globalmenu applet etc. As such, I have decided to rewrite this tutorial for the Intrepid platform.