10-21-2009
Okay. Thanks a lot -- great answers. And thanks for the recommendation on Gentoo, Corona -- I'm definitely going to look into that one. I'm curious about some things regarding if I wanted to install one or more of these systems on my MacBook (under Snow Leopard -- well, Leopard right now, but I'll be upgrading Snow Leopard before I install a Unix system). I have both Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion on my MacBook (although neither are being used at the moment -- I don't have any other OS's installed or emulated or anything at the moment). So, I'm curious:
1.) I could, if I wanted to, use Boot Camp to partition the hard drive and then install the OS(s) on those partition(s) -- that would be one way to do it, right?
2.) Instead of actually installing the OS(s) on the hard drive, I could alternatively use emulation, right? In this case, I'm curious -- what would be the effect of using a emulator like VirtualBox or something versus an application like Parallels or Fusion? What's the difference there in terms of its effect on installing an Unix-based OS? Would you prefer one to the other? Will any OS work under VirtualBox, or just certain ones? Similarly, will any OS work with Parallels/Fusion? Also, if I did choose to use Parallels or Fusion instead of VirtualBox, would one be better (between Parallels and Fusion) for Unix-based OS's than the other -- I've always liked Parallels, but I just wanted to see if anyone has any experience in that direction.
3.) So, I could choose which of these two ways I want to do it (partitioning or emulation). Will the OS run better one way than the other? I assume there has to be some downside to emulation otherwise everyone would just use that, right? Is there anything along these lines (partitioning vs. emulation) that I should know? Any input here?
Thanks again everyone -- your responses are very much appreciated.
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macptopbm(1) General Commands Manual macptopbm(1)
NAME
macptopbm - convert a MacPaint file into a portable bitmap
SYNOPSIS
macptopbm [-extraskip N] [macpfile]
DESCRIPTION
Reads a MacPaint file as input. Produces a portable bitmap as output.
OPTIONS
-extraskip
This flag is to get around a problem with some methods of transferring files from the Mac world to the Unix world. Most of these
methods leave the Mac files alone, but a few of them add the "finderinfo" data onto the front of the Unix file. This means an extra
128 bytes to skip over when reading the file. The symptom to watch for is that the resulting PBM file looks shifted to one side.
If you get this, try -extraskip 128, and if that still doesn't look right try another value.
All flags can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix.
SEE ALSO
picttoppm(1), pbmtomacp(1), pbm(5)
AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 1988 by Jef Poskanzer. The MacPaint-reading code is copyright (c) 1987 by Patrick J. Naughton (naughton@wind.sun.com).
29 March 1989 macptopbm(1)