Parallels is virtual box? where it is available for download. On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Swarup <dinban...@sprynet.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-09-06 at 13:07 +0530, Linux Lingam wrote: > > I'm still struggling to install Ubuntu 12.04, which is supposed to be > > supported for 5 years. > > I have a MBP 5,2, and am hesitating to even attempt the 12.04 > installation for the same reason. But I have recently gotten a new imac > for our home office, and installed Parallels on it. You may already be > familiar with Parallels-- it is probably the most widely used software > these days for running operating systems virtually in OSX. I am using > both Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 virtually on OSX, via Parallels. It > works great, and offers tremendous advantages. Just imagine: all the > benefits of three OS's (OSX, Win 7, Ubuntu 12.04) at the same time with > no rebooting! (I should emphasize here that I am a long-time Ubuntu > user, and of the three OS's, for many reasons prefer Ubuntu. But there > are still today some tasks that are best addressed in Win, for example > relational databases in MS Access-- still no comparison anywhere else. I > am waiting and very much looking forward to the day when good relational > DB software is available in Ubuntu :-) ) > > So this is just one option for you. If you install Parallels on OSX, > then 12.04 will install in Parallels without any issue at all. You'll > have your 12.04 installed and running in 20 minutes. > > Swarup > > > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in >
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