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Ok, I have to first say that I love 10.6.4, its a great OS. Now, that being said, I also find Ubuntu 10.04 to be very useful to me, my question to the community is this, should I continue to use Parallels or should I dual boot my MacBook?
Parallels has been ok for me so far, but it has its limitations. Also, will the boot camp assistant work with Ubuntu 10.04? Thanks in advance!

Hi and welcome to Discussions,
if you run into limitations with Parallels I personally would say that it is time to go for the Dual-Boot.
The Ubuntu community has a very helpful site here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook
The BootCamp Assistant might come in handy to nondestructively partition your harddisk into two partitions, one for OSX and one for Ubuntu.
Apart from that it won't help you with the Ubuntu installation or any kind of drivers.
And to have a backup of your OSX might come in handy as well, just in case.
Regards
Stefan
Message was edited by: Fortuny

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