Marc Trudeau sez: [...] } 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?
Fink is a port of the Debian package management system. If you want that kind of package management on Intel, install the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. ISO CD-ROM images, which can be burned onto CD easily, are available for Debian 3.0r0. After installing, you will want to apt-get update and apt-get upgrade. Note that everything is done with apt-get and dpkg; the fink command is, unsurprisingly, a Fink-specific invention. Incidentally, I am considering moving to Debian for PPC on my Mac. I haven't tried it yet, but it looks like I'll be able to have my cake and eat it too. A program, Mac-on-Linux (www.maconlinux.org), makes it possible to boot MacOS (9.x or 10.x) in a virtual console, an X11 window, or both. It looks like I can have all the benefits of Debian package management, the huge library of packaged software, and still have MacOS X there when I need it. I could even run a rootless X server under MacOS X, but run most of my apps under Linux and connect to that server. I understand that Fink doesn't have the manpower that Debian does, nor the control over the host OS, but at this point I consider my use of Fink a failed experiment. It just doesn't measure up to Debian, and now that I know I can have Debian without giving up MacOS X, I no longer need it to provide a complete environment. I'm not going to uninstall, mind you, just cut way back on the installed packages (I've spent the last week trying to get xfree86 4.2.0.1 to install on my 10.1.5 box... enough is enough). } 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? Actually, yes. I have been running Apache/Tomcat/PostgreSQL on three different machines: my Mac at home, a dev box at work, and a production box hosted at a hosting site (which is actually running a different JSP container). In general, try not to duplicate the development environment on the production machine but, rather, the production environment on the development machine(s). This means get your software up and running on the x86 box, then configure your Macs as nearly the same as possible. } Thanks sincerely, } Marc --Greg ------------------------------------------------------- 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
