Running Ubuntu on a Mac

Hey guys, this is Maads 101, and today I'm going to be showing you another very, very interesting lesson. I think a lot of you are going to like this lesson, and it's to show you how to run Ubuntu on your Mac.

Now, um, if you don't know what Ubuntu is, okay, there are two things that are great about Ubuntu. First off, okay, actually three things, okay? There's one thing good about Ubuntu, and that it's Linux. There are two things good about Linux, and I'll tell you them right now.

So first off, you can go to linux.com. Okay, the two things are: one, it's free, so you can download it for free, and it's legal, and you don't have to worry about that. The second thing is it's open source, so I love things that are open source. CU, that means that they care, and they let you, um, learn off their stuff. Obviously, they don't want you to steal their material, but they let you learn off of it. Just like I can look at this website, and the code's right there. The entire internet is open source; you can see the code for any website. So, um, that's what open source means.

So, okay, so if I want to download Ubuntu, you just click on "Download Linux" on linux.com, or you can just go straight from ubuntu.com. Now, Ubuntu, um, there are many different versions of Linux, just like there are many different versions of Mac and Windows, such as, um, Leopard and Tiger.

So I'm going to go all the way down to Ubuntu. That's right over there, and I'm going to say, "Ubuntu download form." Now, again, you can access this straight from ubuntu.com. It's going to ask you some custom options. I'm going to say the 64-bit version, and I'm going to say the latest version. Okay, it's going to still ask me for my location; I'll just say the United States, wherever that is right there.

Okay, and I'll begin the download. This, uh, this download thing will pop up in 15 seconds, and if that does not work, just click on this URL now. Okay, right now it's downloading, so, um, it'll make these two files on your desktop while it's downloading, but then when it's done, it'll just be one file. So, um, I'm just going to, um, what's it called? Make a cut here. Right, I'm just going to make a cut here, and I'll pause it when it's done.

Okay, okay, so now you notice that the file has finished downloading. So what you can do is you can just double-click on it. You don't need to; I'm just showing you something because you see it's an ISO file. So, um, it's very similar to a DMG file in which it makes another disk. So I'm just going to eject that. This, CU, I don't need it right now.

Another thing is you're going to have to download this application. It's called Parallels. I think you can get it off parallels.com, or it's called Parallels Desktop. So I'm going to open that. When you open Parallels, you're going to get this nice window that can give you a tutorial, and it's going to ask you all these. Um, just say "Run Windows on your Mac." I know you're not running Windows, but it's basically the same concept.

So you can just say that, and it'll give you the option for a Ubuntu CD or DVD image. Choose, and you can also burn a disc off this and run it from the disc, and run it as the main operating system. Or, again, if it's still off the disc, you can run, um, you can run it as your full operating system. But if your disc isn't parted, which I'm going to explain about later, you won't be able to do a lot of the cool features.

So I'm just going to say "Open" and "Continue." It's going to ask you for the file name; I'm going to say "Ubuntu Linux." It's going to create a new file there. I can just say "Done" or "Start." I'll say "Done." Now it'll load my virtual machine; there it is.

And if I say "Start," this is the setup window for, um, Ubuntu. Now, if I, I can change this window size and stuff when I'm in Mac, but when I'm in here, I'm going to lose my mouse. How do I get my mouse back?

Okay, this is very important. To get your mouse back, you press Control + Option, and you'll get your mouse back. And to get out of full screen, or in full screen, you press Option + Command + Enter, and then you press Option + Command + Enter again. When you're in full screen, when you're in full screen, uh, a nice feature I like is you can have Ubuntu here and Mac here, so in different windows, and you can drag Ubuntu onto wherever you want.

So I'm just going to make that right there and go in there. Whoops! I was messing with the windows, but whatever. So I'm going to get out of full screen mode. Okay, and now I'm actually going to get back into full screen mode, so you can see. There we go! So now you're not going to get the mouse, but you are going to get the arrow keys.

So I'm just going to say "English," press Enter. I'm going to, uh, try Ubuntu without making any changes to my computer. Press Enter. You're going to get this nice kernel that shows you that it's loading. This is the loading kernel for Ubuntu, and then you're going to get another one in just a second. Hold on, just a second; it might take a while. That'll show you that it's opening, and right now it's about 10% open.

Just give it a second. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, zero! Almost! Okay, anyways, so just wait for it to open, and right now I'm going to get this little introduction song video. See? Wait for it; wait for it. There we go! In my opinion, not as nice as Mac's introduction video, but it's still pretty nice.

Okay, so the first thing you can do is, um, okay, first, first thing, this is Ubuntu! You now are running Ubuntu. But let's say I'm going to make a new window. Uh, let's open, let's open, uh, one of the system preferences. I'll just open the help window for now.

Okay, so many people think this looks like, um, PC or Windows, and I guess it kind of does since it has these three things on the right in the square shape and this, um, toolbar that is similar to Mac. By the way, I'm going to point out Parallels was taken off Linux, and yeah, I mean, not Parallels Spaces. So yeah, so that's the Linux version of Spaces or one-two version.

So, um, okay, so a cool thing about Linux, not only that it's free and open source, well, since it's open source, a lot of people added a bunch of cool stuff, and so among those cool stuff are cool effects. So you can go to System Preferences, Appearance, then you can change the appearance. You can change the background, the font, the interface, but I'm going to show you the visual effects.

I'm not going to be able to run these effects right now; it's set to none. I'm going to say "Extra." You're going to see it's not going to work because it's going to search for some new drivers, and it's not going to be able to find them, and we're going to get this little error message in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, and here we go!

So I'm going to explain why it's because you're not actually running the full, um, Linux. To run it, you're going to have the full Linux. You have to part your hard drive to have a Linux part, and so right now, what parting your hard drive means is, um, right now I have one hard drive. You're not going to do any physical changes to your hard drive. Instead of having two, you're just going to cut that one into two, so it's going to think it's two hard drives. You're going to have another hard drive right there.

So I'm just going to go back. I'm going to teach you how to do that. You can go into Install, and this is to actually install Linux or Ubuntu. Just wait for it to open. Okay, here we go! Now I can just say "Forward." That's explaining; I'm saying English. Yeah, I'm just going to ask me for my time zone. I'm just going to say that my keyboard, I'm going to say "USA Traditional," and it's starting the partitioner.

So it's saying before the changes, 0% is on Ubuntu, 100% is on Mac. After changes, it can make, it's going to say 100% on Ubuntu. So it's just replacing what the hard drive is doing, but you can make it manual and do whatever you want. But for now, I'm just going to leave it as this.

So now I can go back into my little window. I like that cool effect, by the way! And I'm going to release the mouse. So you can shut it down or suspend it. I'm going to suspend that and then if I quit, I'm still going to have this thing right here. So if I open that up, oh, sorry, I have it open with TextEdit, so I'm going to set it to open with, um, Parallels Desktop, which is what it should do it with, and I'm going to open it.

And now it'll resume wherever you were off, so if you had something open, it would still be open. So, uh, yeah, this, that was basically how to, um, run Ubuntu on your Mac. I hope that helped, and, uh, goodbye!