[ILUG] GN & Mac OS X

[Ferren MacIntyre]

Having tried to install both MkLinux and PPC Linux on my iMac, and
succeeding only in losing half of the space on my hard disk to a Unix
partition, I have now installed OS X.  Everything Apple is willing to tell
me about it boils down to 'It's real pretty'.  Just as for Linux, I now
have 2 operating systems on the machine, 9.1 to run everything I own, and
X, which runs SETI at Home.  MacForth and Photoshop are now both flaky; Nisus
seems OK.  OS X *is* smart enought to have run off and collected upgrade
1.3.1 and installed it, with very little coaching.  And at least both
operatng systems work.  It's a bit clunky, and I'm in no to hurry to put X
on the iBook.

My interest in Linux is the GNU-and-Linux compatible material which my
colleagues in oceanography run on x86 machines.

I do have one indication of a Unix-like underlay:  it hung while starting
up, and gave me a most unMac-like page of white text on gray saying 'panic
time', followed by hexadecimal gibberish.  Fortunately, the next restart
went more smoothly.

So, my question.  Anybody out there had more experience than I with Mac OS
X?  How does one get at the putative BSD/Darwin layer?  (I have a CD of
Ceveloper's Tools, but it won't tell me what's on it until after I've
installed it, so I haven't.)

--Ferren

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Dr Ferren MacIntyre
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Galway, Ireland
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