Hi all,

I am looking for advice from people who have made the move from Linux to
OS X. What sort of problems should I be anticipating? For example, any
problems converting kaddressbook to work with mac mail application? Any
problems mounting ext3 file systems? Any problems running any of the
popular linux applications under X11? Any differences in command line tools
or UI that I have to be aware of? etc.

Thanks

In article
<3wh%e.6696$QE1.3583@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink. net>,
rsina <rsina.no-ssppaamm@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am looking for advice from people who have made the move from Linux to
> OS X. What sort of problems should I be anticipating? For example, any
> problems converting kaddressbook to work with mac mail application? Any
> problems mounting ext3 file systems? Any problems running any of the
> popular linux applications under X11? Any differences in command line tools
> or UI that I have to be aware of? etc.
>
> Thanks

I do not have a clue about kaddressbook, sorry.

A lot of the UNIX commands are based on FreeBSD, not Linux, so
there are differences. Then again, I use Linux and Mac OS X at
work, and many of the shell scripts (bash) I write work very well
on either Mac OS X or Linux.

A lot of the stuff you are used to changing in /etc/... you may
find different. Some things Apple has outright changed and
control through their GUI interface.

As far as I know, you can not mount ext3 file systems.

The Apple HFS+ file system is the primary file system. UFS is
available, but I would not suggest using it in anything except a
..dmg mountable file.

FAT32 file systems are mountable, which makes using USB memory
cards and camera flash cards accessible.

fink.sf.net can help you with installing a lot of OpenSource
applications. Note, X11 is an optional install that is included
on the installation DVD. You may also want to install the Xcode
tools from the installation DVD as well.

If you are using ssh to connect to Linux boxes, you may need to
use ssh -Y from the xterm started when X11 starts to properly
export your DISPLAY environment to the Linux box.

Bob Harris

In article
<3wh%e.6696$QE1.3583@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink. net>,
rsina <rsina.no-ssppaamm@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am looking for advice from people who have made the move from Linux to
> OS X. What sort of problems should I be anticipating? For example, any
> problems converting kaddressbook to work with mac mail application? Any
> problems mounting ext3 file systems? Any problems running any of the
> popular linux applications under X11? Any differences in command line tools
> or UI that I have to be aware of? etc.
>
> Thanks

I do not have a clue about kaddressbook, sorry.

A lot of the UNIX commands are based on FreeBSD, not Linux, so
there are differences. Then again, I use Linux and Mac OS X at
work, and many of the shell scripts (bash) I write work very well
on either Mac OS X or Linux.

A lot of the stuff you are used to changing in /etc/... you may
find different. Some things Apple has outright changed and
control through their GUI interface.

As far as I know, you can not mount ext3 file systems.

The Apple HFS+ file system is the primary file system. UFS is
available, but I would not suggest using it in anything except a
..dmg mountable file.

FAT32 file systems are mountable, which makes using USB memory
cards and camera flash cards accessible.

fink.sf.net can help you with installing a lot of OpenSource
applications. Note, X11 is an optional install that is included
on the installation DVD. You may also want to install the Xcode
tools from the installation DVD as well.

If you are using ssh to connect to Linux boxes, you may need to
use ssh -Y from the xterm started when X11 starts to properly
export your DISPLAY environment to the Linux box.

Bob Harris

In article <nospam.News.Bob-5EFDA8.20405230092005@news.verizon.net>,
Bob Harris <nospam.News.Bob@remove.Smith-Harris.us> wrote:

> In article
> <3wh%e.6696$QE1.3583@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink. net>,
> rsina <rsina.no-ssppaamm@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am looking for advice from people who have made the move from Linux to
> > OS X. What sort of problems should I be anticipating? For example, any
> > problems converting kaddressbook to work with mac mail application? Any
> > problems mounting ext3 file systems? Any problems running any of the
> > popular linux applications under X11? Any differences in command line tools
> > or UI that I have to be aware of? etc.
> >
> > Thanks
>
> I do not have a clue about kaddressbook, sorry.
>
> A lot of the UNIX commands are based on FreeBSD, not Linux, so
> there are differences. Then again, I use Linux and Mac OS X at
> work, and many of the shell scripts (bash) I write work very well
> on either Mac OS X or Linux.
>
Some commands are very different as well as how the system works as a
whole. 10.4 (Tiger) just introduced a daemon called launchd which
handles starting of other dameons and stuff. If you have to know about
any of the internals/how things work, read/look at Apples Developer
Documentation. O'Reilly has a great book called "Mac OS X Tiger for Unix
Geeks" that explains alot.

> A lot of the stuff you are used to changing in /etc/... you may
> find different. Some things Apple has outright changed and
> control through their GUI interface.

Not to mention the beast that is known as Netinfo. Just about anything
can be done in the command line, except some tasks are easier, not to
mention safer, with the provided GUI utilities.

>
> As far as I know, you can not mount ext3 file systems.
>
If the file system in question is on another machine, exporting via NFS
is always an option. I would recommend looking around to see if someone
has wrote some additional utilites to deal with ext3.

- Ed

In article <nospam.News.Bob-5EFDA8.20405230092005@news.verizon.net>,
Bob Harris <nospam.News.Bob@remove.Smith-Harris.us> wrote:

> In article
> <3wh%e.6696$QE1.3583@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink. net>,
> rsina <rsina.no-ssppaamm@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am looking for advice from people who have made the move from Linux to
> > OS X. What sort of problems should I be anticipating? For example, any
> > problems converting kaddressbook to work with mac mail application? Any
> > problems mounting ext3 file systems? Any problems running any of the
> > popular linux applications under X11? Any differences in command line tools
> > or UI that I have to be aware of? etc.
> >
> > Thanks
>
> I do not have a clue about kaddressbook, sorry.
>
> A lot of the UNIX commands are based on FreeBSD, not Linux, so
> there are differences. Then again, I use Linux and Mac OS X at
> work, and many of the shell scripts (bash) I write work very well
> on either Mac OS X or Linux.
>
Some commands are very different as well as how the system works as a
whole. 10.4 (Tiger) just introduced a daemon called launchd which
handles starting of other dameons and stuff. If you have to know about
any of the internals/how things work, read/look at Apples Developer
Documentation. O'Reilly has a great book called "Mac OS X Tiger for Unix
Geeks" that explains alot.

> A lot of the stuff you are used to changing in /etc/... you may
> find different. Some things Apple has outright changed and
> control through their GUI interface.

Not to mention the beast that is known as Netinfo. Just about anything
can be done in the command line, except some tasks are easier, not to
mention safer, with the provided GUI utilities.

>
> As far as I know, you can not mount ext3 file systems.
>
If the file system in question is on another machine, exporting via NFS
is always an option. I would recommend looking around to see if someone
has wrote some additional utilites to deal with ext3.

- Ed