On Friday, Sep 20, 2002, at 01:15 Europe/Stockholm, Jonathan 'JC' Redford wrote:
I'm running a PowerMac G4 933 and I want to know if I can run your OS as well as Mac OSX and if there is a way to run MacOSX programs over a network through XFree86.
JC
The Kernel of OSX is unix based but you will need few changes to support "full unix" :
1) Download & install the latest developer tools for your version (10,1 or 10,2, apple provides it; you have to open a free developer account) it adds important libraries & ...
2) Install XDarwin (as suggested before), this allow you to run XFree86 in parallel with OSX.
3) Strongly suggested : install fink (you can download it from apple). It will offer you the list of program available, easy way to install/remove/update them (based on debian). I suggest you to immediately add the unstable branch to you fink config.
4) Before using fink (even before installing it) go there : http://fink.sourceforge.net/index.php
Note that there is major differences between 10,1 & 10,2 and not everything will run under 10,2.
There is also 3 Fink mailing list for beginners to developers that can answer your questions : http://fink.sourceforge.net/lists/index.php. You can look at the archives online.
Till now, around 1400 programs has been ported, full KDE & Gnome are available and running perfectly,...
5) Have fun :-)
Eric DUFOUR
