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Dec 23

Taming the Leopard

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Being a guy who wants to learn something new all the time, I had a wish to keep three computers one on windows, one on Linux and one on OSX and see them talking to each other. Well, being a guy who is neither born with a silver spoon nor working for Apple or Google, I can’t afford a mac(book). I’ve to adjust with my bulky-yet powerful Dell. My cousin got a VAIO which runs on Vista. My Dell runs on Gutsy as well as Good-old-XP. Apart from these two laptops, I’ve a desktop under my control which use to run XP. I wanted to share screenshots of 3 great Operating Systems - one which is maximum used OS and definitely a favorite for gamers, one which is hacker’s OS and the third being - the designer’s paradise.

1. Windows XP SP2

Whistler

2. Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10

Gutsy

3. Leopard - OS X 10.5.1

Leopard

The third one was something which I was missing from long time. Very long time. I wanted to buy one but not in my budget. I wanted to try one, none of my friends got it. I wanted to experience one atleast on my laptop, I wasn’t very sure of risking the data on it. Finally. Today is the day for my Hackintosh and it worked out. I will write a detailed post sometime regarding the care that needs to be taken while trying this. I messed-up my partition table by missing just 2 characters and later I managed to recover couple of partitions, I went for a clean installation. It is a great experience and is for a great OS. Now, saving each rupee for a real mac book.

If you see carefully, theme of my XP is variant of famous “Bluecurve”, which is a Linux theme and the mouse theme is of OS X Tiger. Theme of my Gutsy is theme of OS X Tiger and theme of Leopard is not changed (yet)

Update : Just saw that post got nothing to do with the Title. Uhmm, I started to post about my journey and ended up posting just screenshots. Anyway, I’ll tell you how to tame the leopard some time soon.

Update : No more hackintosh. Using work’s macbook pro.

2 Responses to “Taming the Leopard”

  1. sindhu Says:
    December 23rd, 2007 at 5:30 pm

    i had 10.4.9 uphuck on my slave 20gb ATA HDD. couldnt get audio, keyboard and ntfs drives working. [if you want to you can read about them here.

    do post about the taming process. eager to know.

  2. Karthik Abhiram Says:
    December 25th, 2007 at 9:22 pm

    K!

    I also upgraded my Ubuntu install to Gutsy today. (Christmas present :) !)

    I was very impressed with Edgy’s graphics itself, this was because it simply worked well and fonts on screen looked good with the font smoothing applied (which was on by default). When Feisty came up with its desktop effects I thought OK, this is good but not really necessary… things are fine with the default stuff itself.

    I take those comments back now :) I’m loving Gutsy Gibbon’s sleek desktop effects, with shadows on windows and all :) Excellent!

    One more thing I really appreciate: it used to be a PAIN to edit large size images (say, a 2000 x 3000 pixel one) on Photoshop earlier. Now with GIMP I am able to do this stuff effortlessly.

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