-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 08 October 2002 08:18 am, Marc Trudeau wrote: > Dear Fink Community, > > I'm having very good luck with Fink on OS X as my first Unix/Open Source > experience (thanks to all of you!). My partner's about to get a new laptop, > which will free up her Intel PIII desktop to be our full-time mySQL and > (low traffic) web server. I've been developing our application on my iBook, > and would like to continue to be able to test and proto on the iBook, but > use the Intel box for our production server. > > Can you recommend a Unix distribution for Intel *86, windowing (Finder > replacement) environment (optional), and package manager combination to > which my OS X/Fink learning will most directly apply, and by which our need > for MySQL/PERL/DBI/DBD-mysql will be most readily met?
Debian GNU/Linux, using either WindowMaker (uses GNUStep, a cousin of OSX) or KDE with the Liquid theme and OSX wm-theme. Debian is what the apt-* stuff in fink is based off of, thus all you experience there will translate directly. Unfortunetly, nothing I've found in linux will give you the same "Look and feel" as OSX, but with the right themes, you can pretend B-) > Is anyone on the list in this situation of developing on OS X, but running > an Intel box for production, and willing to trade insights? Well, I do that. But it's either command-line stuff, in java, or I'm using my iBook, but ssh'ing to my x86/linux machines. I mean, there is no difference there to even think about... OSX == UNIX :-) - -- A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in. --Kim Alm, a.s.r -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9ousoEHLN/FXAbC0RAgqqAKCdmZAAbDI6cvfF2RfJh9XmO1b4agCgvJfs WfukvC1ZRrZo5ZVkuDn8eUU= =gm2j -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
