On 8/24/07, Jamie McCloskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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! If you get the CD, I'd be grateful if you could loan it to us so we can put it's image on one of the machines in the St. Albans Neighbourhod Network room. And let us know if it works for you.
> > 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. It's the server end which needs a static IP. Not your machine. All you need is a machine with an ssh client. Macs running O/S X, and Linux machines, have it as part of the install, and you can download PuTTY for Windows from:- http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html > > I wonder if the horse could oblige? > > If not, please let me know. > > > The 'horse"? Not sure what you mean there. Craig Falconer has very kindly set up a Linux machine for CLUG members to log into. It's name is 'horse'. It has a web-page at:- http://criggie.dyndns.org:8080/ As you are learning C you might also find:- http://shell.clug.net.nz:8080/~chris/sawtell_C.shar to be an interesting read. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
