{"id":404,"date":"2006-04-27T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-27T21:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwilson.me.uk\/blog\/2006\/04\/running-another-operating-system-on.htm"},"modified":"2007-05-15T09:37:54","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T08:37:54","slug":"running-another-operating-system-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/04\/running-another-operating-system-on.htm","title":{"rendered":"Running another operating system on a Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--114617259815356389-->Since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/01\/apple-launches-intel-macs-and-new-ipod.htm\">Apple switched to using Intel processors for certain Macintosh models<\/a>, I&#8217;ve been excited by the possibility of running Windows on a Mac.  Some say its sacrilege.  I say it&#8217;s sensible.  I love the Apple hardware, but am not a fan of the software, which (in my opinion) is proprietary and expensive.  I also know Windows very well (including how to keep it secure).  Ideally, I&#8217;d have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macmini\/\">Mac Mini<\/a>, dual-booting a major <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linux\">Linux<\/a> distribution and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsxp\/\">Windows XP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There have been various reports of people who have managed to write an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Extensible_Firmware_Interface\">EFI<\/a> boot loader for Windows on a &#8220;MacIntel&#8221;, as well as reports of those who have turned their systems into an unbootable and unsupported heap of PC components in the process; but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/pr\/library\/2006\/apr\/05bootcamp.html\">Apple provided me with a nice birthday present earlier this month by announcing Boot Camp<\/a> &#8211; software to allow dual-booting of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/\">OS X<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsxp\/\"><\/a>Windows XP, including driver support.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not quite ready to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/switch\/\">switch<\/a> yet &#8211; Boot Camp is still a beta and the final release will be included in the next version of OS X (meaning I&#8217;ll have to shell out another wad of cash to upgrade to OS X Leopard before I can use a release version of the Boot Camp technology).  I&#8217;m also wary of first generation MacIntel hardware and would like to see support for Windows XP Media Center Edition, so guess I&#8217;ll be watching this space for a little longer.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, these links provide really useful information on the progress of Windows on a Mac:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macwindows.com\/winintelmac.html\">MacWindows: Running Windows on Intel-based Macs<\/a><\/li>\n<li>[Windows] <a href=\"http:\/\/onmac.net\/\">OnMac<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.onmac.net\/index.php\/XOM_Main_Page\">XOM<\/a>)and the <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.onmac.net\/\">OnMac Wiki<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/bootcamp\/\">Apple Boot Camp public beta<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parallels.com\/en\/products\/workstation\/mac\/\">Parallels<\/a> (virtualisation solution for MacIntels)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For Mac users who fancy using <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linux\">Linux<\/a>, there are some <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PowerPC\">PowerPC<\/a> Linux distros (like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrasoftsolutions.com\/products\/ydl\/\">Yellow Dog Linux<\/a>) and if you&#8217;re not convinced as to why you might want to use them (after all, isn&#8217;t OS X just another Unix operating system anyway?) I recommend Giles Turnbull&#8217;s article entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macdevcenter.com\/pub\/a\/mac\/2004\/11\/30\/linux.html\">why install Linux on your Mac?<\/a> Then there&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mactel-linux.org\/\">Mactel-Linux project to adapt Linux to MacIntel hardware<\/a> as well as reports that Red Hat plan to include Intel-based Mac support in <a href=\"http:\/\/fedora.redhat.com\/\">Fedora<\/a> and a variety of sites claiming to have other distros working too.  Whilst it sounds a bit of a mess (chain-loading <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/LInux_LOader\">LILO<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NTLDR\">NTLDR<\/a>), there&#8217;s also <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.onmac.net\/index.php\/Triple_Boot_via_BootCamp\">a triple-boot solution (OS X\/XP\/Linux) using Boot Camp<\/a> (from the OnMac guys).<\/p>\n<p>Finally, for those who want to play this the other way around and run OS X on a PC, there&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osx86project.org\/\">OSx86 project<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Apple switched to using Intel processors for certain Macintosh models, I&#8217;ve been excited by the possibility of running Windows on a Mac. Some say its sacrilege. I say it&#8217;s sensible. I love the Apple hardware, but am not a fan of the software, which (in my opinion) is proprietary and expensive. I also know &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/04\/running-another-operating-system-on.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Running another operating system on a Mac<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[31,3,99],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-macintosh","tag-linux","tag-windows-xp"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Running another operating system on a Mac - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/04\/running-another-operating-system-on.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Running another operating system on a Mac - markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Since Apple switched to using Intel processors for certain Macintosh models, I&#8217;ve been excited by the possibility of running Windows on a Mac. 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