[ale] Linux on an Apple iBook

tfreeman at intel.digichem.net tfreeman at intel.digichem.net
Sat Feb 15 11:52:06 EST 2003



I haven't been agressive enough to fully explore the CLI of OS X. FWIW, I 
will expound. 

Basically, I have yet to find any CLI program that OS X will not support. 
Emacs is on the default install, Bash is available. X11 is available, 
although I haven't gotten it working (haven't tried). 

The one area where I'm largely confused on CLI capabilities on OS X is 
configuration, where Apple is attempting (and partially succeeding) to 
simplify configuration. Get the relevant O'Reilly book and start wading.

Hope this helps

On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Pilar Losada wrote:

>  I would love to know more about OS X and Yellow Dog Linux. I 've never used
> a Mac before, but I have heard good things about OS X.  I kow it has a BSD
> kernel, but does it   fully support the CLI?  Could you use Bash on it ?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Andy
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Michael D. Hirsch <mhirsch at nubridges.com>
> To: <ale at ale.org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 7:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [ale] Linux on an Apple iBook
> 
> 
> > On Thursday 13 February 2003 01:26 pm, Jason Vinson wrote:
> > > I got on a SuSE kick for a while, but I didn't like the whole package
> > > management system of SuSE.  It's too structured  :)
> > >
> > > I prefer apt anyday...
> >
> > apt supports SuSE quite well, so you get the best of both worlds!
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > > -------Original Message-------
> > > From: Larry Grenevitch <lg1450 at bellsouth.net>
> > > Sent: 02/13/03 01:00 PM
> > > To: ale at ale.org, Jason Vinson <jason.vinson at mindspring.com>
> > > Subject: Re: [ale] Linux on an Apple iBook
> > >
> > > > You should consider SuSE Linux also mostly because of all of the
> > >
> > > applications
> > > which come with it out of the box so you may have everything you need
> > > without
> > > compiling anything as well as an easy to set up firewall.
> > >
> > > On Wednesday 12 February 2003 02:26 pm, Jason Vinson wrote:
> > > > Hi folks,
> > > >
> > > >      I have been convinced to try out the Apple iBook (800MHz, 256MB
> > >
> > > RAM)
> > >
> > > > with gool ol' OSX, but i wanted to see how people like PPC linux
> > >
> > > distro's.
> > >
> > > > I'll most likely run with YDL, unless someone can convince me
> > > > otherwise.
> > > >
> > > > Any comments/horror stories?
> > > >
> > > > TIA,
> > > > Jason
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