hello everybody,

i just saw the new imac G5 and im considering to buy one. I've never
had a mac, but since they got OS X and got those really nice designs
im thinking more and more in getting one.
im more a home user, like i'd use it to surf the web, emails, watch a
dvd, and for music and pictures, that's pretty much it. However, i
like to program, so it'd be great if i could program in C like i can
do under linux.
I admit im a complete newbie on OS X, so is it real that i could just
get any program for linux and get it to compile (provided that it's
not x86 architecture dependant) and run it under OS X?, does it has
GCC?
i guess that i could try to go to Apple Expo in Paris, but i dont know
if it's only for developpers and i could ask such a newbie questions
as im asking
thanks everybody,

In article <6aefd6be.0409021637.282a7ca6@posting.google.com >,
malaka@email.it (sebastian) wrote:

> hello everybody,
>
> i just saw the new imac G5 and im considering to buy one. I've never
> had a mac, but since they got OS X and got those really nice designs
> im thinking more and more in getting one.
> im more a home user, like i'd use it to surf the web, emails, watch a
> dvd, and for music and pictures, that's pretty much it. However, i
> like to program, so it'd be great if i could program in C like i can
> do under linux.
> I admit im a complete newbie on OS X, so is it real that i could just
> get any program for linux and get it to compile (provided that it's
> not x86 architecture dependant) and run it under OS X?, does it has
> GCC?
> i guess that i could try to go to Apple Expo in Paris, but i dont know
> if it's only for developpers and i could ask such a newbie questions
> as im asking
> thanks everybody,

I'm not a programmer, but I know OS X is built on a BSD Unix kernal.
However, it doesn't use X-Windows as its windowing manager (though there
is a version of X-Free86 for OS X...)

While OS X is a Unix variant, I doubt it's as simple as recompiling 'any
Linux program'. Open Office, for instance, is in a very early beta stage
for OS X-- far less stable and usable than it is under Linux, or even
Windows.

There is a full-featured Terminal and command line, and a CD of
developer tools is included in the full OS X retail package... however,
while OS X is certainly the most user-friendly Unix ever, you'll find it
has enough differences from Linux to make for some work-- but also some
fun.

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