Triple Boot Mania

(I have this nearly uncontrollable urge to begin every blog with "So, ..." I don't know why, it's just what's in my head.)

We have a MacBook Pro that I installed Boot Camp in nearly a year ago so that I could run Houdini (and therefore Windows) on it. I don't really like Windows, though it's not as bad as I had feared. I really prefer Linux over Windows, but it was just easy to put Windows on with Boot Camp, so that's what I did.

That being the case, I've wanted to find another way to run Houdini, and tonight, I finally got my Mac to triple boot. Yes, this machine can do it all, Mac OS X, Windows and Linux (though not at the same time).

I tried the virtual machine route with Parallels and VMWare, but the performance just wasn't there.

I bought a small USB hard drive (80Gb) and successfully installed openSUSE 10.2 on it.

It's not all glory and roses yet, since I don't have the airport extreme card working yet, but I have read some web pages that show other people have done that part.

Soon I will have Houdini running on Linux on my MacBook Pro. Woo Hoo!

Dave