Mac OS X Lion 10.7 is the eighth major release of Mac OS X is a completely different version from the for windows because it is a version that is totally based on the productivity suite for mac os x. This for mac is one of the best and successors of 2011 and it is followed by the for mac of 2007.
Are you looking for a Linux distribution that looks like Mac OS X? Actually you can turn your ordinary Ubuntu 14.04 into Mac OS X looks using Mac OS X theme and icon which available for Ubuntu. But, if you don’t want to install themes and want something else, you may need to take a look at this MacOS-Linux 11.04. This is a Linux distribution which is modified and looks like Mac OS X out of the box. No modification needed to get the Mac OS X looks.
It still in doubt if MacOS-Linux is the Pear OS reincarnation said Softpedia.com. But I think this distribution is just Ubuntu 11.04 with Mac OS theme installed. Personally I haven’t tested this distribution but I think its a nice one.
Its pretty cool right? You don’t have to install any theme. The screenshot above is the default interface of MacOS-Linux 11.04. Unfortunately, this distro is still based on older Ubuntu 11.04 and currently Ubuntu 14.04 is available. I hope we can upgrade to the most recent Ubuntu version without problems.
Interested? Download MacOS-Linux 11.04 ISO from here.
There are multiple utilities to create a Linux Live USB in Windows. However, most of them are not available in Mac OS X. Let's see how to create a Linux Live USB in Mac OS X without using any third-party apps, just with the terminal and the dd command.
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Download the Linux Distribution ISO
The guide will work for most Linux distributions.
For the example, we will use an Ubuntu 14.04.03 ISO, which is the latest LTS (Long Term Support) version of Ubuntu, and will be supported until 2019.
Open the terminal
After the ISO has downloaded, we need to open the Mac OS Terminal. The fastest way to do so is pressing Command + Space to open the Spotlight Search and type 'terminal'.
Inside the terminal, we need to navigate to the folder we downloaded the ISO. The default directory is our Downloads folder, and we can navigate there with:
For more information about how to navigate the terminal, check out our guide:
Basic Linux Commands for Linux Terminal Beginners
Since both Linux and Mac OS X are based on Unix, navigating the terminal is similar for both.
Convert the ISO to IMG
To create a Linux Live USB in Mac OS X, we first need to convert the ISO file to an IMG. We will do so with the hdiutil application, substituting <ubuntu> for the full ISO file name.
On a modern Mac with an SSD, this process will take less than a second. In the example, it took 925ms.
Prepare the USB flash drive
For most Linux distributions, a 4GB USB thumb drive will be enough. We connect the thumb drive to our Mac and run the diskutil command to see the device node assigned to our flash drive.
In the example, it is /dev/disk2.
Next thing, we need to unmount the drive. We make sure it doesn't contain any useful files, because they will be deleted, and then run:
Create the Linux Live USB in Mac OS X
Finally, we are ready to set the procedure in motion. We type:
We might have converted the ISO to IMG, but Mac OS X added a .DMG extension, so we have to include this too.
Also, using /dev/rdisk instead of /dev/disk may be faster, but both will work.
After the sudo command, we need to enter our user account password. Nothing will show on the terminal as we are typing; we just enter the password and press Enter.
If we use a fast USB 3.0 drive on a USB 3.0 capable Mac, the procedure will be lightning fast. The 1006MB ISO was transferred to the USB in less than 5,2 seconds, averaging 194MB/sec.
Finally, we eject the USB thumb drive with:
That was it. We now have a Linux Live USB, to install Linux on a Windows PC, or on our Mac.
Did you have any trouble creating a Linux Live USB in Mac OS X?
If anything on the guide didn't work as described, and you weren't able to create a Linux Live USB in Mac OS X, leave us a comment.
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