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Setup Ubuntu 9.04 using VirtualBox on Mac OSX Leopard

Submitted by david on Wed, 15/04/2009 - 15:33
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Virtualization is becoming essential for any software developer. Operating Systems compatibility has been improved over the years, but there are still some tests that must be done by developers over different platforms and operating systems.

Web developers that use Mac OSX need to test their sites on different browsers like Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8. If you don't want to waste your hardware installing Windows, you can use any of the existing virtualization tools.

On Mac OSX there are mainly 3 wonderful options: Parallels Desktop, VMware Fusion and VirtualBox. In my case, the are two reasons that made me decide wich one to use: free and open source. That is VirtualBox.

Virtual servers on MAMP (Mac OSX + Apache + MySQL + PHP)

Submitted by moixo.com on Fri, 06/06/2008 - 09:08
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If you are a web developer on PHP and MySQL, probably you needed to define virtual servers on Apache. If you also work on Mac OSX, then a good option to have a development environment fully working and up to dateis MAMP. Alright, in this situation, I recommend you to do this:

Sharing files and folders from Ubuntu to Mac OS X

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This article tries to explain, step by step, how to set-up Ubuntu Linux to share files and folders with Mac OS X in an heterogeneous network. The goal is to be able to read and write files from a Mac computer running Mac OS X into another one running Ubuntu Linux.

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