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An interesting question
Chooco:
so MacOSX is basically BSD with a nice GUI? kool!
voidmain:
You got it. Something I thought M$ should have done years ago if they really wanted a good OS and play along with the others, but their motives are far from "standards".
With the new Mac OS X you can run Xwindows along side the proprietary GUI and most of the open source apps are being or have been ported so you have the best of both worlds... One of these days I'll get one....
Chooco:
so are you saying that MacOSX can run Linux programs?
if so, i think we have found the ultimate operating system
voidmain:
No, I am saying that OS X can run Open Source applications (which also happens to be what GNU/Linux is made of). You know, like Apache, Xwindows, etc, etc. Not everything has been ported yet, but it surely will be in short order.
chris_h:
quote:Originally posted by Chooco:
so are you saying that MacOSX can run Linux programs?
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In a manner of speaking. Linux programs have to be recompiled for the PPC processer. The majority of programs can be recompiled with very few changes, if at all.
The Fink Project is a group of people who recompile, and make easily available, tons of linux software (with more added all the time).
All your major stuff is already recompiled... things like Gimp, hell even KDE itself.
quote:Originally posted by Chooco:
if so, i think we have found the ultimate operating system
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Correct. I won't even bring up running windows in VirtualPC (it's somewhat slow, but great for most apps). You can have apps from MacOS, OSX, linux, and windows all running side by side.
quote:Originally posted by VoidMan:
But it was my understanding that only gets you to "single user mode". In which case networking and other things would not be started. Is that correct?
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No. What you're thinking about is holding down Apple-S (at _boot_ time only).
Typing >console at the login screen (which you can get to any time) will give you a text login, where you still have to type in a username and password.
From there you can get online with lynx, start XFree86 with KDE, and so on.
quote:Originally posted by VoidMan:
And what if you want it to automatically boot up to a console login when powered up (acting as a GUIless server for instance)?
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That is possible. I don't remember the exact command though.
quote:Originally posted by psyjax:
They are very diffrent from Linux commands, that is, as diffrent as standard UNIX commands are from linux.
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true, but a begining linux user probably wouldn't notice any difference at all.
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