Hi,
someone just sent me this question. I, (of course) couldn´t answer but no
doubt one of you will.
Could you please ask one of your buddies that run Linux if Mac programs can
be run from a pc that uses Linux?
Maryse
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On March 8, 2005 11:46 am, M.Schild wrote:
Could you please ask one of your buddies that run Linux if Mac
programs can be run from a pc that uses Linux?
Well this is something i have been looking into but not done yet.
Answer is yes but with an emulator. Problem is, you need a mac rom
If it's a Mac program written for Mac OSX, it should be pretty easy to
run on Linux because Mac OSX is Unix under the hood (well, Unix-like;
the guts of OSX is a version of BSD). A lot of Mac OSX programs have
Linux equivalents; others that come in source code format can usually be
compiled
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 07:28 pm, Paul Greene wrote:
because Mac OSX is Unix under the hood
___
the web page :
http://www.macwindows.com/emulator.html
has stuff about: Running Mac OS on other Platforms
..
the emulator BOCHS may be
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 11:28 am, Paul Greene wrote:
If it's a Mac program written for Mac OSX, it should be pretty easy to
run on Linux because Mac OSX is Unix under the hood (well, Unix-like;
the guts of OSX is a version of BSD). A lot of Mac OSX programs have
Linux equivalents; others that
Aron Smith wrote:
I think that there is a version of linux fo macs
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
There are dozens of distros for Mac. Yellowdog is exclusively Mac (It's
basically Fedora ported to PPC), while other Distros like Debian, and
even Mandrake if you hadn't heard, have builds for
riccardo wrote:
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 07:28 pm, Paul Greene wrote:
because Mac OSX is Unix under the hood
___
the web page :
http://www.macwindows.com/emulator.html
has stuff about: Running Mac OS on other Platforms
..
the emulator
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 11:28 am, Paul Greene wrote:
I think that there is a version of linux fo macs
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
Ha! your very own Mandrake 10.1 runs on macs.
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Thank you for all the answers. I passed them on
Maryse
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I have a new ECS N2U400-A which will not load either 9.2 or 10.0. I
spent 18 hrs trying different combinations and gave up.
So I installed win2k on that box, just to prove to myself that the
board sucked more than I originally thought.
Okay, the question.
It has an onboard nvidia 10/100 NIC.
On July 25, 2004 06:26 am, Lee Wiggers wrote:
I have a new ECS N2U400-A which will not load either 9.2 or 10.0. I
spent 18 hrs trying different combinations and gave up.
So I installed win2k on that box, just to prove to myself that the
board sucked more than I originally thought.
Okay,
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 15:00:38 -0700
Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 08 June 2004 10:42 am, Lee Wiggers wrote:
Hi all
Can someone tell me where/how to get my 10/100 card's MAC
address?
I can see all of them on the router status screen, but I have
the hostnames so
Hi all
Can someone tell me where/how to get my 10/100 card's MAC address?
I can see all of them on the router status screen, but I have the
hostnames so screwed up I'm not sure which machine is which ip.
I'm medium dumb now but some of this dates from when I was just
clueless.
Lee
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Lee Wiggers wrote:
Hi all
Can someone tell me where/how to get my 10/100 card's MAC address?
I can see all of them on the router status screen, but I have the
hostnames so screwed up I'm not sure which machine is which ip.
I'm medium dumb now but some
On Tuesday 08 June 2004 10:42 am, Lee Wiggers wrote:
Hi all
Can someone tell me where/how to get my 10/100 card's MAC address?
I can see all of them on the router status screen, but I have the
hostnames so screwed up I'm not sure which machine is which ip.
I'm medium dumb now but some of
Hello All,
I need to transfer some files that I downloaded on my Mandrake
Box to
my Mac. I am running samba on both machines, so they can see
each other on the network. The problem I am having is, when I
open nautilus on my mandrake box
I have installed PPC 9.1 on a Mac 9500/200. The videocard is ATI mach 64 GX, and the
display an Apple 16 Color monitor. Whatever parameter combination I use, XFree86
comes back with errors concerning display and/or ATI card (although it finds the right
card with X -configure).
Help greatly
On Wednesday 13 August 2003 07:15 am, Haywiremac wrote:
there's a porject which emulates mac os x on linux. anything like
vmware. i heard bout this project but i cant remeber its name...
google couldnt find anyth.
there's some experimental project to run OSX on x86, but it's not for
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:39:39 +0200
Remo Liechti [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
there's a porject which emulates mac os x on linux. anything like
vmware. i heard bout this project but i cant remeber its name...
google couldnt find anyth.
there's some experimental project to run OSX on x86, but
hi
there's a porject which emulates mac os x on linux. anything like
vmware. i heard bout this project but i cant remeber its name... google
couldnt find anyth.
remo
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On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:39:39 +0200, Remo Liechti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi
there's a porject which emulates mac os x on linux. anything like
vmware. i heard bout this project but i cant remeber its name... google
couldnt find anyth.
VMware isn't an emulator, it is a virtualiser. An
there's a porject which emulates mac os x on linux. anything like
vmware. i heard bout this project but i cant remeber its name...
google couldnt find anyth.
there's some experimental project to run OSX on x86, but it's not for
public consumption, AFAIK.
page or something?
Want to buy
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 16:05:29 +0200
Remo Liechti [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
there's a porject which emulates mac os x on linux. anything like
vmware. i heard bout this project but i cant remeber its name...
google couldnt find anyth.
there's some experimental project to run OSX on
Hi guys,
Thanks for all your comments which, while very interesting, do not quite
answer my maybe poorly formulated question. So I will re-phrase it: do you
know of any comparisons between MAC OS X and Linux which would look at
aspects such as connectivity, multi-tasking, multi-user
On Thursday, February 14, 2002, at 03:16 AM, Andrei Raevsky wrote:
Hi guys,
Thanks for all your comments which, while very interesting, do not
quite answer my maybe poorly formulated question. So I will re-phrase
it: do you know of any comparisons between MAC OS X and Linux which
Hey,
Do you know how GSM mobile phones became an international standard? The
Nordic countries (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Finland) agreed on
a common standard for mobile phone communications. The Nordic countries
don't have the largest populations of any countries in the world, nor
Thanks for the info. This answers my question very well.
Cheers,
Andrei
Ok to save you some time the only differences are in the file system.
Linux can use the ext2, ext3, JFS, ResierFS or XFS file systems. All
except ext2 are journaling. Mac OS X can use the HFS+ (which is the
recommended
On Thursday, February 14, 2002, at 03:16 AM, Andrei Raevsky wrote:
Hi guys,
Thanks for all your comments which, while very interesting, do not
quite answer my maybe poorly formulated question. So I will re-phrase
it: do you know of any comparisons between MAC OS X and Linux which
i DID see that post, i checked out the article you recommend, and it was
PHENOMENAL !!!
thought *slightly* slanted toward BeOS, it was one of the most informative
comparison of operating systems I've seen ...
thanks for the suggestion.
kennM
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On Thursday, February 14, 2002, at 11:30 AM, Mike Settle wrote:
I thought this was supposed to be a Mandrake forum - For the last three
days, all I've seen is Mac OS related !!! Why don't you guys find a
chatroom, or something.
Have you actually been reading the emails? This entire
Hello!
Hi guys,
Thanks for all your comments which, while very interesting, do not quite
answer my maybe poorly formulated question. So I will re-phrase it: do you
know of any comparisons between MAC OS X and Linux which would look at
aspects such as connectivity, multi-tasking, multi-user
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 10:30:17 -0600
Mike Settle [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me:
I thought this was supposed to be a Mandrake forum - For the last three
days, all I've seen is Mac OS related !!! Why don't you guys find a
chatroom, or something.
no disrespect meant, but the
okay, i'm curious .. WHICH linus t book?
Just for fun
cheers,
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2002 2? 13 ??? 13:40??:
Id depends on what you want. For most of the people of this list
(including me), Mandraje provides everything for the daily use.
As for my frustrations:
- No consistent cut paste;
This can be frustrating if you use different toolkits. The
You trivialise the issue. Drivers are supposed to be written by hardware
manufacturers (who actually know what the hardware is about), not by
software/OS designers (who must reverse engineer the hardware to know
how it works).
Yes, you are of course correct in this, but I don't feel that I am
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 15:57:07 +0700, Brian Durant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You trivialise the issue. Drivers are supposed to be written by hardware
manufacturers (who actually know what the hardware is about), not by
software/OS designers (who must reverse engineer the hardware to know
how it
Is hardware support really as bad as you seem to make it sound? I've loaded
various versions of Mandrake on a variety of different systems, and I've
never
had any problems that I couldn't easily fix.
Hardware support has gotten amazingly good, actually. However, in fifteen
to twenty minutes, I
be said but for the moment .. lm is "ishta"-creme de la creme of the linux
world for me
"salam" - peace
- Original Message -
From:
Andrei
Raevsky
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 6:12
PM
Subject: [newbie] Mac
Sridhar,
I am very new to Linux. I found your comments very well written and
informative.
Thank you,
Gary
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GNU/Linux hasn't gained the critical mass required to meet this challenge as
well as MS. Most components work, though. Most modern video cards are
supported, for example.
Isn't this the same for any OS? MS rely on hardware manufacturers writing
drivers for Windows. True, they don't have to lobby
Hi,
I am looking for a good, thourough and detailed, technical comparison of Mac OS X versus Linux. A friend of mine is a really "religious" Mac user and it will take a lot to make him try Linux. I would like to help him with this.
Please send me any good articles (or links) you have.
Thanks,
Andrei Raevsky wrote:
Hi,
I am looking for a good, thourough and detailed, technical comparison
of Mac OS X versus Linux. A friend of mine is a really religious
Mac user and it will take a lot to make him try Linux. I would like
to help him with this.
Please send me any good
wn. I read about updating my
kernel, I don't know if I need to just yet.
Thanks
again!
-Original Message-From: Andrei Raevsky
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 11:13
AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Mac OS
X versus Linux?!
On Tuesday, February 12, 2002, at 11:12 AM, Andrei Raevsky wrote:
Hi,
I am looking for a good, thourough and detailed, technical comparison of Mac OS X versus Linux. A friend of mine is a really "religious" Mac user and it will take a lot to make him try Linux. I would like to help him with
On Tuesday, February 12, 2002, at 11:12 AM, Andrei Raevsky wrote:
Hi,
I am looking for a good, thourough and detailed, technical comparison of Mac OS X versus Linux. A friend of mine is a really "religious" Mac user and it will take a lot to make him try Linux. I would like to help him with
Sorry, I forgot to ask this in my first reply but why do you feel the need
to convert your friend to Linux if he is happy with Mac OS X?
For a very simple reason: I don't think that proprietary software is a good
thing. Neither do I trust that Mac suddenly coming into Unices and even
open
okay, i'm curious .. WHICH linus t book?
- Original Message -
From: Andrei Raevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 1:38 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!
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| Sorry, I forgot to ask this in my first reply but why do you feel
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:04:56 -0500, NDPTAL85 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Meanwhile ArsDigita has closed up shop and months ago the company that
housed the original PostgreSQL developers shut down. Oh yeah Loki shut
down too. When these companies shut down, the software doesn't die
because its
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:04:56 -0500, NDPTAL85 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Meanwhile ArsDigita has closed up shop
http://www.arsdigita.com/
All the links seem to work. Maybe you meant ADUniversity? The ACS is still
open source and still available, though it's been converted from TCL to Java.
-
Hello,
Sorry, I forgot to ask this in my first reply but why do you feel the need
to convert your friend to Linux if he is happy with Mac OS X?
For a very simple reason: I don't think that proprietary software is a good
thing. Neither do I trust that Mac suddenly coming into Unices and
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:04:56 -0500, NDPTAL85 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Meanwhile ArsDigita has closed up shop
http://www.arsdigita.com/
All the links seem to work. Maybe you meant ADUniversity? The ACS is
still
open source and still available, though it's been converted from TCL to
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 12:47:57 +0900, Pascal Goguey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
Sorry, I forgot to ask this in my first reply but why do you feel the need
to convert your friend to Linux if he is happy with Mac OS X?
For a very simple reason: I don't think that proprietary software
That's true. I'm sure free software will get there; it'll just take some
time :)
Apps may get there, but drivers for video cards, sound cards, etc. is a
friggin nightmare without end! Here you have some very nice and
technically skilled programmers that are trying to play catch up with
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 12:43:37 +0700, Brian Durant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's true. I'm sure free software will get there; it'll just take some
time :)
Apps may get there, but drivers for video cards, sound cards, etc. is a
friggin nightmare without end! Here you have some very nice and
I beg to differ. At the school where I am a technology coordinator, we have
about half Macs. Our new machines are PCs, so all of our Macs are pre 10.
Initially, when I was the tech coordinator, the Macs crashed hard and often.
Once, though, I learned how to make them run properly, they ran
Okay to answer you question, and please I don't want to get into a Mac and PC
arguement I have no favors in either, I bought it with MacX with Mac9 for
older application support if I understand that correctly. Classic environment?
In my post I stated that what I said was the impression I got
has anyone else seen the bench marks for the upcoming mac power chip that
basically rate it at a little more than twice the 2.0 intel chip?
what good will that intel mhz number do you if you have one instruction per
clock cycle? :)
On Monday 22 October 2001 18:02, you spoke unto me thusly:
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 18:02:30 -0700 (PDT), Mel Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi everyone.
I_ve been playing with linux (ML8.1) for a little
while on my home machine (an old P166). Our family is
getting to the point where we need a second machine,
so I_m trying to decide on the merits of
Just to put in my two cents. I have three machines. A 1GHz which I use to use
for WindowsME is now a Linux box, WindowsME laptop which handles great and is
just for strict use no fun whatsover, and I picked up an iMac about a month
ago which the family enjoys mostly since it sticks out from
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 11:35:27 +0100, Steve Borrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I know that several distributions (Mandrake, SuSe, and
Debian) come in PPC flavours, but I sometimes wonder
if they will continue to find it worthwhile to develop
for PPC. Although I expect that we
Do you find that winME is less stable than say
winNT or 2000?
On Tuesday 23 October 2001 03:10 am, Robert wrote:
Just to put in my two cents. I have three machines. A 1GHz which I use to
use for WindowsME is now a Linux box, WindowsME laptop which handles great
and is just for strict use no
WindowsME is a joke if I want to say do some video capture or producing. If all I do is download email, surf the net, work on documents,play with some photos with Adobe, or do my finances I never seea crash or get a blue screen of death. Although, theMac does come with Quicken, personally never
on 10/23/01 3:02 PM, Robert Pena at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have hardly seen Mac crash but as far as multitasking goes I
get the impression it is slower than Linux and Windows.
What MacOS are you talking about, pre 10 or 10+? As a big time Mac fan I can
assure you Macs using 9 and earlier
Do you find that winME is less stable than say
winNT or 2000?
I do, Win2k runs like a dream, WinME has added clunkyness
Rick
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John Hokanson Jr. wrote:
If that's the only reason, I would have to decline.
Windows 2000 (not 9x) is already fairly stable,
Of course, there's also which OS you would prefer to use, if stability
is not an issue. I personally favor the Mac, hardware- software- and
OS-wise, but some of my
Hi everyone.
I´ve been playing with linux (ML8.1) for a little
while on my home machine (an old P166). Our family is
getting to the point where we need a second machine,
so I´m trying to decide on the merits of going with a
PowerPC (Mac) architecture (perhaps a new Mac G4)
instead of Intel. I
One of the things about the Mac that caught my
attention was that its new OS X is basically another
Unix variant. Aside from being more stable than
Windows, Im hoping that each machine would be able to
easily mount the others file systems. Has anyone tried
this? I would expect it to be simply a
Mel Roman wrote:
I know that you can
similarly use SAMBA to serve files to a Windows
client, but I understand that this would be more
limiting (the linux box cant write to the Windows
partitions, etc...).
The Linux box *can* write to Windows partitions (using Samba).
Randy Kramer
Want to
I stand corrected - thank you. I have been mounting
my local NTFS partition read-only for quite some time,
but did not know that SAMBA allowed you to write also.
Aside from the SAMBA clarification, does anyone have
any other thoughts about the pros and cons of getting
into the Mac
On Monday 22 October 2001 06:02 pm, you wrote:
Hi everyone.
I´ve been playing with linux (ML8.1) for a little
while on my home machine (an old P166). Our family is
getting to the point where we need a second machine,
so I´m trying to decide on the merits of going with a
PowerPC (Mac)
On Monday 22 October 2001 08:02 pm, you wrote:
I know that several distributions (Mandrake, SuSe, and
Debian) come in PPC flavours, but I sometimes wonder
if they will continue to find it worthwhile to develop
for PPC.
There's always MkLinux and LinuxPPC. MkLinux has Apple themselves
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Hokanson Jr.
Sent: Tuesday, 23 October 2001 9:49 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Mac vs Intel architecture deliberations
On Monday 22 October 2001 06:02 pm, you wrote:
Hi everyone
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 00:56, Mark Johnson wrote:
My wife went out and bought OS X but I really don't know a thing about Macs
or OS X. But I do know that OS X is running on some version of the BSD
kernel. If that's the case does anyone know if it would be possible to:
1) access the linux
My wife went out and bought OS X but I really don't know a thing about Macs
or OS X. But I do know that OS X is running on some version of the BSD
kernel. If that's the case does anyone know if it would be possible to:
1) access the linux desktop from the mac?
2) access the mac desktop from
James S Bear wrote:
Okay, I will admit it. I am a bad kid. You can go ahead and hate me if you
want, but some of your addresses are filtered out of my e-mail. I hate to do
that, it is bad list etiquette. How do I expect to get my questions answered if
I don't read half of your e-mails?
Frans is right... ifconfig is your friend on many levels.
In Mandrake, ifconfig is not in a regular user's path. So you'll need to
be root, or have to include the full path. /sbin/ifconfig
But here's a way to get the MAC address. Just use this command here to
cut out what you need with out
Ifconfig is easier than dmesg.
-JMS
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of James S Bear
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 11:46 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] MAC addresses
How can I figure out what my MAC addresses (I have two NIC
Hi,
I was playing with my computer and thought, why not add my 12 year
old mac to my network so that we have a machine for email, ice, etc. So I
got the cables needed and connected the two computers, So far everything
is working ok. If I run zterm in the mac and minicom in the linux
Many many thankx, I think I got a leg up now.
On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Jon mewed:
I don't think yow are going to get a reply on this here. Not many people here
own Macs.
There is a howto and may be some documentation with the mac tools rpm (Whose
name escapes me).
Try
I got the modprobe hfs to load, now I just need to know
the command to format it, I tried mkfs.hfs and
mkfs -t hfs /dev/sda4 but that was bogus.
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