Apparently it's now fairly easy to get Gnome 2.4 running on OS X 10.3 using Fink; see here: http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=1578 On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 04:44, Stephen Fisher wrote: > Note sure if this is the write list of the hundreds listed on the site. > > New to Linux and Gnome. Very interested. Have done partial install of > Gnome (1.4 I believe) under OS X to run Gnucash, which despite being a > mess to install is a fine piece of software. Keep seeing references > that Gnome Desktop can be made to run on Apple Darwin, but nowhere on > any page of the Gnome site, my search of the list archives, or > elsewhere on the internet can I find an detailed explanation of how to > accomplish. Based on my limited experience w/ Linux. I find this to be > a great liability of Linux software in general. Help is generally > available via mailing lists like this one (if you find the right one) > but written documentation is either non-existent, well hidden, outdated > or incomplete. Please do not take this criticism as a flame. It's not. > I've found the quality and at least mailing list support for the Linux > software I used to be outstanding and wish the platform every success. > You know you are on the right track when Linux is being challenged by a > company more odious in SCO than even MS!! ;) But for the newbie, > acquiring the information necessary to get started in Linux with or > without a distro is daunting, and a barrier I believe to success on the > consumer desktop. Speaking as a Apple user, I see much parallel > interest in Apple and Linux opposition to MS dominance of the desktop. > And now that the Mac OS underpinnings are Unix-based, one of the few > barriers to greater use of Linux software on Apple hardware is ease of > installation. OpenOffice provides a very simple install under Mac OS X. > A lesson to be learned for Linux community in general. > > A final observation on Linux documentation. Stopped by two local > bookstores today (B&N and Borders) looking for an introductory book on > Linux. To my surprise found more Apple related books than Linux! And > nothing introductory. All seriously geeky (How to configure sendmail in > 900 pages.) I'm sold on the Linux GPL concept. But from where I sit, > Linux is going to have a tough sell job until the message is dumbed > down and readily available to folks outside the IT industry. The > product is getting there. The message is not. > > Thanks for listening. Interested in any help someone can offer re > running Gnome Desktop under Mac OS X. > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-list mailing list > gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
