Re: [Fink-users] Fwd: OS X question - redux

2002-07-21 Thread Chris Devers
On Sunday, July 21, 2002, at 02:08 PM, Curtis Vaughan wrote: One of the main features I would probably have to use if I were to advise OS X on future laptops would be a KDE desktop. Judging by posts I'm assuming this is possible. However, I am wondering also, if I were to use KDE with

Re: [Fink-users] Fwd: OS X question - redux

2002-07-21 Thread Erik Price
On Sunday, July 21, 2002, at 02:49 PM, Lee Wee Tiong wrote: if u wanna teach ur guys abt unix, i guess Mac OS X with its freebsd underpinnings work just fine. but if u want them to learn linux, well there r many differences between the demon and the penguin. I thought that the Darwin

Re: [Fink-users] Mac OS X question

2002-07-21 Thread Erik Price
The truth is, do you want to run OS X or, do you want to run Linux? There's no reason to choose OS X over Linux just because it comes preinstalled on laptops. Any preinstalled Linux distro is going to be outdated shortly anyway, unless you're using superstable Potato or something. (Can you

Re: [Fink-users] Fwd: OS X question - redux

2002-07-21 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
Most of the questions seem to have been answered in the many other posts, but I thought I would chime in with my $.02 as I seem to be one of the longer running linux users, and possibly one of the shorter OS X users. Frame of reference, I started in linux roughly six years ago and have gone

Re: [Fink-users] Mac OS X question

2002-07-21 Thread Brian Schott
It depends on what you really are looking to do. The problem with running Linux on laptops is drivers. It is perfectly possible (several of my colleagues do exactly that), but it can be a challenge to get all of your peripherals working properly unless you are Linux savy. Be prepared to

[Fink-users] postgresql won't build

2002-07-21 Thread Chris Devers
Attempts to build both postgresql postgresql-ssl are failing for me with a ranlib error. The following comes from the build logs I've collected: *** % tail -7 postgresql* == postgresql-ssl_2002.07.15.13:54:08 == /usr/bin/ld: table of contents for archive: /sw/lib/libpq.a is out

[Fink-users] fink install kdebindings3 fails...

2002-07-21 Thread Pedro Massobrio
% sw_vers ProductName:Mac OS X ProductVersion: 10.1.5 BuildVersion: 5S66 % make -v GNU Make version 3.79 % fink --version Package manager version: 0.9.12 Distribution version: 0.4.0.cvs % cc -v Reading specs from /usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/2.95.2/specs Apple Computer, Inc. version