[TriLUG] Bought my first Laptop--a new Apple Powerbook with OSX--With Linux software in mind I have three questions:

[al johson]

Thanks a bunch!! You've given me just about everything I was looking for. I
realize that it might be a bunch of work, but  if I was afraid of work, I
wouldn't be playing with Linux, would I ??? Thanks again--Al Johnson.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Benjamin Reed <ranger at befunk.com>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 7:57 AM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Bought my first Laptop--a new Apple Powerbook with
OSX--With Linux software in mind I have three questions:


> al johson [alfjon at mindspring.com] wrote:
> > I just bought myself a new Mac Titanium Powerbook 667MHZ G4. I'm curious
> > whether Linux software can be transferred from Linux to Apple's OSX
system
> > (which as you may recall is a version of BSD).
> >
> > 1. Specifically, are there any cross compilers which can take Linux
source
> > code and turn it into programs that will run on Apple's OSX system??
>
> Yes and no... it's possible to get a lot of stuff to compile, but most
> packages take a few hacks to get them working.  I suggest you take a look
> at Fink (http://fink.sourceforge.net/) -- it's a set of tools and packages
> for installing open source unix tools on OSX.  Kind of like BSD ports, but
> with debian package management, and RPM-like ease-of-packaging.  Does a
> lot of the work for you.
>
> > 2. How portable are Terminal "programs" or "scripts"  between Linux and
> > OSX??? For example, how many similarities are there between the commands
in
> > OSX and Linux??
>
> Very similar.  OSX's user-land tools in 10.1.x is based on 4.4 BSD lite.
> The full suite of GNU tools run just fine on it as well...
>
> > 3. If I wanted to put a version of LINUX on this laptop, which version
would
> > everyone recommend???
>
> The easiest install I've had on the iBook so far is Mandrake 8.2;
YellowDog
> is pretty nice too (basically RedHat for PPC --
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/),
> and debian works on PPC too if you're a debian fellow.  I've had the best
luck
> with the "netinst" CD: http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/.
>
> --
> Benjamin Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick (ranger at befunk.com)
http://ranger.befunk.com/
> Is it considered bad form to quote one's self in a .sig?  -- Me
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