On Dec 7, 2007, at 9:58 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote:
On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Stephen - K1LNX wrote:
I'll check that out as well. I hope to be happy with the Mac
platform, I
still (and will continue) to run Linux on my desktops and servers,
but I've
always wanted a Macbook and finally broke down and bought one. I
know there
is this love/hate relationship with it, but hey it's still not
Micro$oft!!!!!!
It's true-blue Unix under the hood now. Any OSX box is just Unix
with a pretty graphical user interface laid on top of it. It's much
closer to Linux than you might think...
You should be very happy with it.
I compiled the latest Xastir on OS X 10.4.11 recently with no
problems, and hopefully 10.5 (Leopard) will work similarly. You need
to install some of the X stuff which comes on the DVD but is not
installed by default. I also got a lot of Unix stuff from
macports.org, like ImageMagick. There is a lot of software on
macports but the installation involves compiling from source
(automated), like Gentoo Linux, so have patience!
73, Bob N7XY
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