Well, I am not really sure whether I install Linux on Macbook as a primary OS. However I miss the days when I used Linux as my development platform and there are some stuff in Mac OS X I just can't get used to.

So the day has come and I am installing Gentoo inside VMWare Fusion. The Macbook Pro has enough power to run both at the same time and with 4GB RAM on board there is enough for both systems. I hope this was I can use benefits from both worlds without sacrificing anything. On top of that I normally use 2 screens - one built-in the laptop and the second on the external monitor. This way I can use both system in full screen mode.

I tried both VM available for Mac OS X: Parallels and VMWare. I wanted to install amd64 Gentoo version. Parallels doesn't support 64bit systems at all so it lost at the beginning and it hang a few time so hard, I couldn't even kill -9 it. Well, this is something for OS to blaim for... VMWare claims it does. It even boots system from CD. During installation however it hangs too. The CD is not broken, nor the installation program is as www.tigase.org has been installed from this CD.

The Gentoo is installing right now in VMWare, let see how it goes...