Do you have a pointer to a good image? On Aug 28, 2010, at 6:29 PM, Keith Watson wrote:
> All well and good to have these tools available on the MAC. The only problem > is that VO access to the terminal is cumbersome at best. My solution to this > is to run a Debian VM and use speakup. Much better access to it's term there, > and if I need to do anything on my MAC i just ssh over and take care of it > that way. > > Just my 2 cents. > > Keith > > > On Aug 28, 2010, at 3:15 PM, Scott Granados wrote: > >> Yes, you have telnet, ssh, ftp and all the standard clients you'd expect. >> I'm sure you could enable daemons to accept connections as well although >> consider the security implications of doing that please.:) >> >> >> On Aug 28, 2010, at 5:58 AM, Karen Lewellen wrote: >> >>> excuse my nose here, but in theory would that let you say tellnet to a site >>> or service that itself is shell associated? >>> sorry if I am over guessing what one might do with that sort of bash. still >>> I would think you could run programs that way? >>> Karen >>> >>> On Sat, 28 Aug 2010, Dave Taylor wrote: >>> >>>> I don't know anything about this side of using a Mac at all. Is there a >>>> good >>>> place to learn about it, right from scratch? I'll probably hardly need it, >>>> but would certainly like to know just in case. >>>> >>>> Cheers >>>> Dave >>>> >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: [email protected] >>>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Josh Kennedy >>>> Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 10:36 PM >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> Subject: the unix shell and mac terminal >>>> >>>> Hi >>>> Over the past few weeks I have been running vinux 3.0 lucid in a virtual >>>> machine and have been playing with it. And then recently I went into the >>>> terminal on my mac in snow leopard and typed some commands and surprisingly >>>> I find that most of the commands I can perform in vinux I can also do with >>>> the terminal or the mac's unix shell. It's really cool. The only difference >>>> I can see in the mac is that it uses the darwin kernel while vinux uses the >>>> linux kernel. Oh and guys if you go into a terminal in your mac and type: >>>> man ls >>>> you can even read the unix man pages there. The only thing that doesn't >>>> work >>>> is apt-get command. I'm not sure if dpkg works or not, I haven't tried it. >>>> I'll try right now. Well guys dpkg also does not work. The mac's shell >>>> reminds me very much of vinux 3.0 lucid though. >>>> If you type >>>> uname -a >>>> it will tell you the kernel version among other things. >>>> If you type: >>>> man ls >>>> it will bring up the man page for the ls list directory command. to quit >>>> the >>>> man pages just press the letter q,. To close terminal hit command q. You >>>> can >>>> even hit tab and it will autocomplete commands for you. I imagine the unix >>>> shell is very powerful, even on the mac. And I'm glad mac uses the bash >>>> shell. Vinux uses it too. I doubt voxin would work on the mac since voxin I >>>> think is compiled for the linux kernel and not the darwin version10 kernel. >>>> >>>> Josh Kennedy >>>> [email protected] >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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