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<blockquote data-quote="mac57" data-source="post: 347507" data-attributes="member: 17052"><p>1/ If you boot linux, the functionality of your USB mouse will be strictly a function of the support on your Linux distro. All *should* work normally if your distro is configured properly. </p><p></p><p>2/ There are lots of places to get software for your Mac. Unlike Linux, you won't find a central distro repository, you need to find software from various sources, just like in Windows. </p><p></p><p>A good guide to some of the critical apps you will want to get right away can be found in my Linux to Mac Switchers Guide at:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.campbell-tx.net/MacOSX/Linux2Mac/linux2mac.html" target="_blank">http://www.campbell-tx.net/MacOSX/Linux2Mac/linux2mac.html</a></p><p></p><p>You will also find a great deal of Linux friendly switching info in this guide.</p><p></p><p>3/ Yes, there are terminal commands in Mac. In fact, Mac OS X is based on FreeBSD and provides a complete bash shell, available via Terminal.app. Further to that, the Mac comes with X11 (complete with xterm of course!) and has several source level unix/linux "distros" available for it. </p><p></p><p>The best of these, IMHO, is darwinports (see <a href="http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/)" target="_blank">http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/)</a>. I use this one myself and run LOTS of my favorite linux apps *directly* under Mac OS X (no need to even boot to Linux - you can run the best of both on Mac OS X!). For example, I run Abiword, gnumeric, good ol xv, feh, xfe, gftp, etc. all installed via darwinports.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mac57, post: 347507, member: 17052"] 1/ If you boot linux, the functionality of your USB mouse will be strictly a function of the support on your Linux distro. All *should* work normally if your distro is configured properly. 2/ There are lots of places to get software for your Mac. Unlike Linux, you won't find a central distro repository, you need to find software from various sources, just like in Windows. A good guide to some of the critical apps you will want to get right away can be found in my Linux to Mac Switchers Guide at: [url]http://www.campbell-tx.net/MacOSX/Linux2Mac/linux2mac.html[/url] You will also find a great deal of Linux friendly switching info in this guide. 3/ Yes, there are terminal commands in Mac. In fact, Mac OS X is based on FreeBSD and provides a complete bash shell, available via Terminal.app. Further to that, the Mac comes with X11 (complete with xterm of course!) and has several source level unix/linux "distros" available for it. The best of these, IMHO, is darwinports (see [url]http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/)[/url]. I use this one myself and run LOTS of my favorite linux apps *directly* under Mac OS X (no need to even boot to Linux - you can run the best of both on Mac OS X!). For example, I run Abiword, gnumeric, good ol xv, feh, xfe, gftp, etc. all installed via darwinports. [/QUOTE]
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