Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C
by _delirium on Thursday January 10, 2013 @02:44PM
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I halfway solution I'm reasonably happy with is to have a VirtualBox install of Debian on top of OSX, and install most scientific libraries there. I've considered just wiping and installing Debian as the main OS, but when I first looked the Linux driver support for my MBP wasn't great, and since then I just haven't gotten around to it. VirtualBox works fine for anything that isn't too heavy duty, and anything heavy-duty I'm running on a beefier server machine anyway.
This is a good idea. The problem I have is that I sometimes need basically all my RAM for simulations (yes, occasionally even on my laptop) and my current only has 4GB (with OS X eating up about 1.5GB on startup for "kernel tasks") so it's dangerous to run a VM with more than 2GB. New laptop will def have 8GB though, so this solution becomes viable again, thanks :)
Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C
by makmanalp on Thursday January 10, 2013 @01:59PM
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Oh no, I think slapping linux on it is the way to go, don't get me wrong :)
But I got stuck with it because I had to do ios dev at some point, so I learned to adapt ...
I hear arch and ubuntu both work great out of the box on macbooks.
hmm, If I can get Arch to install, I might give it a go. Ubuntu was a bit pants when I tried it for a month early last year (had installed Lion, was pants on the old machine, tried ubuntu before rolling back to SL.) Multitouch gestures for multiple desktops is a must now that I've got used to it...
Interesting what you say about 10.8 - I might give it a shot then. I will be upgrading soon from snow leopard (2009 MBP) and I was going to wipe and go debian/XFCE, because of all the "new ideas" like "let's not have save as" etc, but if installing stuff is easier (and I know multitouch works) I might give it a go.