[ale] iMac

[Christopher Fowler]

On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 15:32 -0600, JK wrote:
> Christopher Fowler wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 15:17 -0600, JK wrote:
> > 
> >>Why not just boot OSX into single-user mode and
> >>use scp from there?
> > 
> > 
> > That would work.  I'm not very versed in OSX.  One thing I would prefer
> > to do is a dd copy because this iMac did not come with 10.1 installation
> > media.  I need to dd the 20GB HDD so I can do fun things like install
> > Linux.
> 
> Ah, that makes sense.
> 
> OSX is pretty much just FreeBSD once you get past the Aqua
> UI. Applications->Utilities->Terminal will look very familiar
> to you. I've yet to find a shell utility missing that I'm used
> to having on Linux. I was even able to smbmount my Samba
> server from my wife's Mac Mini, right out of the box.

The only thing I'll miss is remote X.  I would like to be able to run
remote X apps from my FC4 desktop.  Like evolution.

> 
> -- JK
> 
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