On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 19:50 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> 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.
>
I love Ruby! I had already discovered it was on the Macs, and I have
read 'The Ruby Way' many times. It's what I do most of my programming
in.
> > 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.
>
Looks useful. Thanks!
> An ssh login into a Linux machine might be the easiest solution for you.
>
I don't have a static IP from home, and I don't know any other boxes I
can use, so probably not.
> I wonder if the horse could oblige?
> If not, please let me know.
>
The 'horse"? Not sure what you mean there.
Thanks,
Jamie
