On 8/24/07, Jamie McCloskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I have recently become frustrated with Macs for programming on. I do > programming in school for ICT, Open the terminal and type 'ruby' and see what happens. Ditto with 'python'. On some computers installed in schools those languages are installed. For ruby there is a _very_ good tome of a textbook called 'The Ruby Way' by Hal Fulton.
> and I refuse to download nearly a gig of > software just to get Apple's Xcode. All I wanted was to compile a bit of > C! Installing Linux is not an option; the teacher is a big Mac fanboy. > SOo.. I need a Live CD that I can boot into, hopefully with some basic > development tools included, and save my source code to a USB key to work > on again. Can anyone reccommend a suitable distro that runs on PPC? The recommended 'distro' for PPC Macs is Darwin. :-) OTOH, there is:- http://gentoo.osuosl.org/experimental/ppc/livecd/ I have never tried it, so do not know if it works, but I would expect it to. An ssh login into a Linux machine might be the easiest solution for you. I wonder if the horse could oblige? If not, please let me know. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
