[ale] iMac

[JK]

Christopher Fowler wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 15:32 -0600, JK wrote:
> 
>>Christopher Fowler wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 15:17 -0600, JK wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Why not just boot OSX into single-user mode and
>>>>use scp from there?
>>>
>>>
>>>That would work.  I'm not very versed in OSX.  One thing I would prefer
>>>to do is a dd copy because this iMac did not come with 10.1 installation
>>>media.  I need to dd the 20GB HDD so I can do fun things like install
>>>Linux.
>>
>>Ah, that makes sense.
>>
>>OSX is pretty much just FreeBSD once you get past the Aqua
>>UI. Applications->Utilities->Terminal will look very familiar
>>to you. I've yet to find a shell utility missing that I'm used
>>to having on Linux. I was even able to smbmount my Samba
>>server from my wife's Mac Mini, right out of the box.
> 
> 
> The only thing I'll miss is remote X.  I would like to be able to run
> remote X apps from my FC4 desktop.  Like evolution.

Should work fine.  There's an X server bundled
with the OS, although it's an optional install;
and I think you can get it somewhere on Apple.com
too.

It might not be beyond the realm of possibility
that a backup copy of someone's OSX install CDs
could end up in your hands...

-- JK