On Friday 20 April 2007 23:38, Edward Vermillion wrote: > On Apr 20, 2007, at 4:09 PM, Richard Lynch wrote: > > On Fri, April 20, 2007 3:59 pm, Edward Vermillion wrote: > >> On Apr 20, 2007, at 3:10 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: > >>> You're exactly right, Richard. MacOS is based on BSD. > >> > >> And if you have any familiarity with linux administration, forget > >> almost everything you know 'cause they changed it in OSX... > > > > Hmmm. > > > > I didn't try to "administer" much, but once I find and open up a > > terminal window, it pretty was just like being on BSD, afaict... > > > > I'm not a BSD (nor Linux) guru, but I typed things in the shell, and > > they did what I expected... > > Yeah, the shell is familiar and except for a few differences between > linux and bsd in some of the commands it's very familiar. > > But pretty much everything under /etc has been replaced with NetInfo. > I'm sure it's great for guys that have a thousand boxes to admin, but > it's a pain for just setting up one box. I guess I could spend a week > or so getting familiar with all the command line stuff for NetInfo > since the GUI is no real help. But it sure would be nice to just be > able to edit the config files like I'm used to... > > Ed
The only good things left on the darwin code is vim and the ssh client, witch is fairly similar to the different unices boxes I'm used to. Trying to compile stuff with the compiler to get things going is like digging your own grave... and yes netinfo I didn't understand at all, witch genious did come up with that crap? -- --- Børge http://www.arivene.net --- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
