On Aug 17, 2010, at 12:41 AM, Alexander Blok wrote: > As to the software i'm considering.. It's called bbs100 and runs native on > linux.
And it runs native on OS X. >From the bbs100 website: <http://www.heiho.net/bbs100/images/bbs100-macosx.jpg> It compiles under OS X perfectly fine. Straight up ./configure, make, make install. You don't need to install Linux. OS X is a perfectly capable Unix OS. If you don't have the Developer tools (which includes the gcc toolchain) installed, you need to do that first, either by installing the Developer Tools package from your OS install disk or by downloading the latest version of XCode from Apple's Developer site (which requires a free registration): <http://developer.apple.com/mac/> Alternatively, you can use a project like MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> which has hundreds of ports of Linux software, very easily managed. Very nice for installing, for example, Gnome-based software without delving into prerequisites hell. With MacPorts you'll want to install the X11 package, which has been an optional install in OSX since 10.3... MacPorts doen't include bbs100, but since it doesn't need porting, I suspect they haven't bothered. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
