Running EES on the Macintosh
EES has been tested on a Mac with an Intel chip:
MacBook
Processor Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory 1GHz
Operating system Mac OSX 10.4.10
There are two ways of running Windows on a Mac:
1. Install two operating systems on the computer, and choose one when the computer boots up.
In order to run two operating systems on a Mac with an Intel chip, you need to install Boot Camp. After you install Boot Camp, it will give you the instructions to
install another operating system.
Boot up the computer using Windows, and EES should run fine. Windows Vista Business was installed on the Mac for this test.
Run Windows from Mac OS.2.
In this case, Mac OS will open Windows as another application. In fact, the two operating systems will be running at the same time in this option.
You need to install Parallels 3.0 for Mac (www.parallels.com). Parallels automatically recognizes that there is another Windows installation used by BootCamp.
The first impression is that the computer runs slower. It is true for starting a new process, but once EES starts, it runs just as fast as in native Windows.
Parallels is assigning 1GB of virtual memory to Windows.
Running EES under Linux
EES can be used on Linux if you have Wine version 0.9.18 or later.
You can tell what version of Wine you have by opening a terminal window
and typing
wine --version
If you get an error, or if the version reported is older than 0.9.18,
you should probably install a pre-built copy of Wine following the
instructions provided at http://winehq.org/site/download.
Once you have wine-0.9.18 or later installed, you can install
the EES demo by opening a terminal window and typing
wine ees_demo_setup.exe
After installation, you can start the EES demo with the command
wine $HOME/.wine/drive_c/EES_DEMO/ees.exe
The Commercial EES program can be installed in the same manner.
If you use EES frequently, you'll probably want to
create a script named '/usr/bin/ees' containing that line,
mark it executable with 'sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/ees'.
Then you can start it anytime by just typing
ees
or make it even easier to start by adding it to your system's Applications menu.
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