Hello again, FFirst of all, thanks for all the responses to my other questions. Really helped a lot I was thinking of trying to get a full-blown GNOME desktop environment running on this machine, as I am familiar with that environment. Doing some research, I can see that their is an open source version of the Xorg X11 Window system that I can install. Ideally, I would love the greatest and latest stuff viable from the GNOME Project which at present, is Gnome 3.4.X. However, I think we have some problems. If I'm wrong in these assumptions, feel free to correct me where necessary. If memory serves, GNOME 3.x has some dependencies on systems, which is Linux-specific. That is, their is at present, no BSD-compatible system implementation. I don't believe that system needs to be running, however I do believe that core system library functions are now dependencies. Does it make sense to install a copy of VMware Fusion and install a copy of Debian into the guest VM? If I do go this route, is their anything I need to be concerned about in Fusion specifically? Note that I have a license for VMware Workstation. Will I have to purchase an additional license for Fusion? Second question Does it make sense to install the GNU-specific tools? In my opinion, they are simply just better than the implementations provided by BSD. I could install them out of the way, into for example, /usr/local/bin, as that way, it won't conflict with software that is under version control via whatever package management system that OS X uses to manage updates.
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