Mac for Linux Geeks

Some might say we all want Linux with an OS X graphical user interface. Mac for Linux Geeks will assist you step by step in migrating from Linux–based systems to OS X. Dual booting, virtualization, and building out the Linux environment on OS X are discussed in detail, along with a comparative view of well–known Mac tools and their open source equivalents. Written for daily use, this concise and dependable guide will steer you across the technical landscape from your chosen Linux flavor to the OS X promised land.

• Live with OS X, but work with Linux tools
• Make the OS X–Linux hybrid a reality
• Use Mac tools where possible and free software where appropriate

• Dual booting Linux on the Mac
• Creating a virtual Linux system on the Mac
• Understanding the OS X graphical user interface
• Leveraging free and open source tools to meet the traditional Apple strengths of graphics and multimedia
• Performing routine OS X system administration for Linux administrators
• “Hybridizing” the Linux/Mac experience

Whether developer, system administrator or hobbyist geek, this book guides all who want to migrate from Linux to OS X, helping to integrate both operating system experiences.

Some might say we all want Linux with an OS X GUI. Mac for Linux Geeks will assist you step by step in migrating from Linux–based systems to OS X. Dual booting, virtualization, and building out the Linux environment on OS X are discussed in detail, along with a comparative view of well–known Mac tools and their open source equivalents. Written for daily use, this concise and dependable guide will steer you across the technical landscape from your chosen Linux flavor to the OS X promised land.

• Live with OS X, but work with Linux tools.
• Make the OS X–Linux hybrid a reality.
• Use Mac tools where possible and free software where appropriate.

What you’ll learn

• Dual booting Linux on the Mac
• Creating a virtual Linux system on the Mac
• Understanding the OS X GUI
• Leveraging FOSS tools to meet the traditional Apple strengths of graphics and multimedia
• Performing routine OS X system administration for Linux administrators
• “Hybridizing” the Linux/Mac experience

Who is this book for

Whether developer, system administrator or hobbyist geek, this book guides all who want to migrate from Linux to OS X, helping to integrate both operating system experiences.

Tony Steidler–Dennison is a longtime Linux user, dating his first experience with Linux back to 1996. He’s used Linux as his sole operating system at home, developed software on Linux systems, and administered such systems in environments as diverse as robotic telescope control, online shopping, presidential politics, and commercial aviation. Tony has coauthored two books on Linux and over the years, he’s written more than a dozen magazine articles on topics from Drupal and content management systems to podcasting with open source tools. Since February 2005, he’s engineered and hosted “The Roadhouse Podcast,” a weekly hour of “the finest blues you’ve never heard.” Since the purchase of an Intel–based Mac Mini, Tony has become both obsessed and fascinated with the operating system he calls “Linux with a pretty face.”

Tony is currently an avionics systems engineer with Rockwell Collins, Inc. in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, engineering open source solutions in the commercial aviation industry.