[ParanoidAndroid]

I Have looked all over the internet and have been unable to find this. I have looked into Fink and MacPort. Maybe someone has run into this issue. I am taking a class where we need to run some linux programs but do not want to install ubuntu on my mini 10v. is there a program similar to DosBox, to run linux executable files/binary files in OS X, I understand that OS X is unix but uses a different compiler than Linux but is there anyway to work around that?

[reflex]

If you don't want Linux on your hard drive, you could use Linux on a USB drive or SD card (I think the 10v can boot off SD).

As for running ELF (basically Linux .exe) x86 binaries while booted into OSX, I don't know of anyway simpler than running full Linux in a virtual machine. But I'm not an OSX user, so I might just be ignorant of a better solution.

[ParanoidAndroid]

I am probably getting the source code and compiling it in OS X

[radiocolin]

OS X, though it shares many similarities to Linux, is not Linux. Most code will require some tweaking to port.

You can run Linux in something like Sun's free Virtual Box VM.

[ParanoidAndroid]

thanks for the suggestions, I ended up using vmware fusion 3 to load ubuntu.