By • 6:00 am, January 7, 2016 • • Ubuntu running on my Macbook Pro -- beautiful. Photo: Rob LeFebvre/Cult of Mac Have you ever wanted to try out a different operating system on your Mac? Ever since Apple started using Intel chips in their computers, it’s been super simple to run Windows and even popular Linux distributions via Boot Camp, virtual environments like Parallels and VMWare Fusion, and the like. Advertisement The problem is that you need to use up precious system resources to run these things on your Mac. Even virtual machines take up disk space, as does running Boot Camp and partitioning your main Hard drive. What if you just want to test something out on your Mac before fully committing?
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Turns out it’s fairly easy to run Linux on your Mac without using up any bit of your hard drive. Using a flash drive and some Terminal commands, you can check out a distribution like Ubuntu running right on your Mac without having to sacrifice a thing. Prep your flash drive Format the drive in Disk Utility. Photo: Rob LeFebvre/Cult of Mac The first thing you need to do is to find a spare flash drive of at least 2 Gb. I used a 4 Gb one, and you can probably use as large a drive as you want. Plug the flash drive into your Mac and then launch Disk Utility.
Once in there, click on the flash drive in the pane to the left, and then click on the Erase button at the top. If you’re using a utility like, you’ll want to quit it before you start the Erase. Let OS X do its thing and remount your flash drive. Now launch Terminal.
Get Ubuntu Make sure you grab the 64-bit version. Photo: Rob LeFebvre/Cult of Mac Now you’ll want to download Linux.
I’ve chosen Ubuntu since it’s my favorite Linux distribution, so these instructions will assume you are using the same. If not, be sure to see how the distro you choose will work on a flash drive.
Head over to and download the 64-bit version of the latest stable version (Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS as of now). You can totally try the cutting-edge version (15.10 as of this post), but can’t count on it to be as stale as possible. Use it at your own (very minor) risk. You’ll be asked to donate to Ubuntu–feel free to do so; the team is pretty great–but you can also just click the “Not now, take me to the download” button and the.iso file will come to your Mac.
How to match colors painting. You can even match an existing color, but you won't use the palette to do so; that's too much guesswork. Instead, you can use PowerPoint's eyedropper tool. It's easy to use but often misunderstood. It doesn't matter whether you use PowerPoint for Windows, PowerPoint for Mac, or work exclusively with Office 365; these tips will help all users maximize their productivity and success with. By using the eyedropper tool, you can precisely match the colors of shapes and objects to other parts of your PowerPoint presentation, to give your slides a cohesive look. Select and apply a color with the eyedropper tool. Using the eyedropper, click the color you want to match and apply to the selected shape or object. As you move your pointer around the different colors, a live preview of the color appears. Hover or pause on a color to see its RGB (Red Green Blue) color coordinates. The steps to match a color using the Eyedropper are available in the video above, or: On your slide, select the shape, text, or object that you want to change the color of. On the Ribbon, select the color drop-down menu.
Now it’s time to drop into Terminal. Change file formats From.iso to.img.dmg. Photo: Rob LeFebvre/Cult of Mac First off, you want to change the.iso file to a more Mac-friendly.img format. Launch Terminal and type or paste the following command in. Hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o ~/path/to/target.img ~/path/to/ubuntu.iso The ~/path/to/target.img ~/path/to/ubuntu.iso part will need to be your own path to the file you just downloaded. For example, I downloaded it to my Downloads folder, so my path is ~/Downloads/ubuntu-14.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso. The command I used, then, is: hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o ~/Downloads/ubuntu-14.04.3-desktop-amd64.img ~/Downloads/ubuntu-14.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso OS X may add the file extension.dmg to the file you’re creating, so you could end up with ubuntu-14.04-desktop-i386.img.dmg.