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<blockquote data-quote="walkerj" data-source="post: 347595" data-attributes="member: 9385"><p>Yes, a two button mouse will work just fine as is on a Mac. I use an Apple Mighty Mouse with my Macbook, but used a Logitech three button mouse for quite a while with my old Mac Mini. If you get a Macbook or MB Pro, you can use 'two finger right click' with the built-in trackpad in which if you have two fingers on the trackpad and click the button, you get a context menu just as if you did a right-click.</p><p></p><p>Also my advise to you is to not bother with Linux on a Mac. Mac OS X is already as-is a fantastic UNIX, which is what Linux has been trying to be in the first place. Granted, it's a BSD variant, so you'll be doing ps -aux instead of ps -ef, but otherwise, all the GNU tools are there.</p><p></p><p>find . -name \* -exec grep -l -i 'foo' {} \;</p><p></p><p>Will work exactly the same on both an xterm on Linux, and Terminal.app on a Mac. As will:</p><p></p><p>tar tf - . | (cd ~/otherdir/otherfolder; tar xpfB -) </p><p></p><p>(assuming that otherdir/olderfolder exist on both machines.)</p><p></p><p>All my bash scripts work on my Mac that I wrote on Linux. Plus you get the slick GUI (though you can run X11 and Fink stuff if you're slightly masochistic), the built-in bluetooth, wireless, iSight camera, beautiful widescreen (if only 13.3" with a Macbook) display, iChat video conferencing (which I use all the time with my wife and brother-in-law with their Macbooks), a nice portable package that sleeps immediately when you close the lid, and wakes up instantly.</p><p></p><p>If you must bother with Linux on a Mac, run Parallels Workstation. Just last night I downloaded a complete Ubuntu virtual machine image that was all set up to run by one fine individual on the Parallels forums. I just copied in place, a double click later and I had a VM booting up Ubuntu Linux so I could play around with that distro. I could still switch desktops to do other stuff in Safari and the other Mac apps while this was running (oh, if you get VirtueDesktops, you can have multiple virtual desktops, like most Linux distros supply with a really cool switching mechanism; I miss the neat switch effect when I'm using my RedHat desktop at work) so it's the best of all worlds.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="walkerj, post: 347595, member: 9385"] Yes, a two button mouse will work just fine as is on a Mac. I use an Apple Mighty Mouse with my Macbook, but used a Logitech three button mouse for quite a while with my old Mac Mini. If you get a Macbook or MB Pro, you can use 'two finger right click' with the built-in trackpad in which if you have two fingers on the trackpad and click the button, you get a context menu just as if you did a right-click. Also my advise to you is to not bother with Linux on a Mac. Mac OS X is already as-is a fantastic UNIX, which is what Linux has been trying to be in the first place. Granted, it's a BSD variant, so you'll be doing ps -aux instead of ps -ef, but otherwise, all the GNU tools are there. find . -name \* -exec grep -l -i 'foo' {} \; Will work exactly the same on both an xterm on Linux, and Terminal.app on a Mac. As will: tar tf - . | (cd ~/otherdir/otherfolder; tar xpfB -) (assuming that otherdir/olderfolder exist on both machines.) All my bash scripts work on my Mac that I wrote on Linux. Plus you get the slick GUI (though you can run X11 and Fink stuff if you're slightly masochistic), the built-in bluetooth, wireless, iSight camera, beautiful widescreen (if only 13.3" with a Macbook) display, iChat video conferencing (which I use all the time with my wife and brother-in-law with their Macbooks), a nice portable package that sleeps immediately when you close the lid, and wakes up instantly. If you must bother with Linux on a Mac, run Parallels Workstation. Just last night I downloaded a complete Ubuntu virtual machine image that was all set up to run by one fine individual on the Parallels forums. I just copied in place, a double click later and I had a VM booting up Ubuntu Linux so I could play around with that distro. I could still switch desktops to do other stuff in Safari and the other Mac apps while this was running (oh, if you get VirtueDesktops, you can have multiple virtual desktops, like most Linux distros supply with a really cool switching mechanism; I miss the neat switch effect when I'm using my RedHat desktop at work) so it's the best of all worlds. [/QUOTE]
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