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<blockquote data-quote="Amen-Moses" data-source="post: 332232" data-attributes="member: 114"><p>So you want to get down and dirty straight away eh?</p><p></p><p>Bash shell by default, accessed by using the Terminal app which lives in Applications->Utilities folder.</p><p></p><p>You will find the directory structure a wee bit different from other *nix systems but it should all be reasonably familiar.</p><p></p><p>Applications on OS X keep their settings in files that have the .plist extension, mostly these are XML style files rather than the normal plain text variety of older *nix OSs. But (and boy is it a big but) for the most part you never need to edit them directly, everything is graphical on this baby!</p><p></p><p>The first thing you'll want to do is install X11 from the disc supplied as it is not there by default, second - if you want to do any development - install XCode from the same disc.</p><p></p><p>XCode will install graphical development tools to /Developer, explore and enjoy, secondly and most importantly, it will also install all the Libraries (which live in the Library folders scattered around, there is a system one plus one for each user), gcc, make etc etc.</p><p></p><p>Then you may like to spend a few days playing with all the goodies, iLife etc, before downloading and installing:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.macports.org/" target="_blank">http://www.macports.org/</a></p><p></p><p>This will give you access to a simple method of installing a huge library of Linux stuff.</p><p></p><p>Oh, welcome btw. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>Amen-Moses</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Amen-Moses, post: 332232, member: 114"] So you want to get down and dirty straight away eh? Bash shell by default, accessed by using the Terminal app which lives in Applications->Utilities folder. You will find the directory structure a wee bit different from other *nix systems but it should all be reasonably familiar. Applications on OS X keep their settings in files that have the .plist extension, mostly these are XML style files rather than the normal plain text variety of older *nix OSs. But (and boy is it a big but) for the most part you never need to edit them directly, everything is graphical on this baby! The first thing you'll want to do is install X11 from the disc supplied as it is not there by default, second - if you want to do any development - install XCode from the same disc. XCode will install graphical development tools to /Developer, explore and enjoy, secondly and most importantly, it will also install all the Libraries (which live in the Library folders scattered around, there is a system one plus one for each user), gcc, make etc etc. Then you may like to spend a few days playing with all the goodies, iLife etc, before downloading and installing: [url]http://www.macports.org/[/url] This will give you access to a simple method of installing a huge library of Linux stuff. Oh, welcome btw. ;) Amen-Moses [/QUOTE]
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