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

2. Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10

3. Leopard - OS X 10.5.1

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.