On 20/feb/04, at 05:21, Thinker wrote:
Hello All,
I've been absent from the list for a while. I just got a PowerBook (about a month ago) so all of my attention had been on getting acclimated to that machine. Now that I am comfortable with my Mac, I am ready to delete my windows 2000 partition on my desktop and go full blown linux on that machine.
I plan to go with the FTP install. How can I make sure I get the latest distro with the latest KDE and Gnome Desktops and all the security patches.
I was having a few issues with my Linux Partition before, so I suppose I would like to start over.
Well.. noone answered. I'll try, myself. I don't know much about having linux from scratch, but you already have a unix (BSD, though) behind OS X. It's pretty much the same as linux, after all. Of course, you manage it differently from linux (and other unixes...) If you want KDE and Gnome, there are the binaries ready for OS X. Just go to sourceforge.net and get "Fink" and its GUI "Fink Commander" and you'll find there is a complete port of KDE 3 for Macintosh. Gnome is a bit behind, but it's there ,too. You can get lesstif, too. "apt" stands behind Fink. Sometimes you may have to build form the sources and to do that you need to install the developer tool CD contents (essentially gcc 3.x, and the rest). You would get the *-develop rpm's, if you wanted to compile something on linux, don't you? ;-) If you still want SuSE Linux from scratch, I asked something alike weeks ago, here, but I had no answer. I did the same to an italian linux newsgroup and had a pointer: http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/home.html - apt for SuSE Where they explain how to updgrade SuSE without using a boot CD. I suppose it could be just as good at installing from scratch and, since, with Fink, you already have apt for Mac, you could as well use OS X and install SuSE on your linux partion. Just some guesses...
Thanks,
-=Thinker
Bye, Ermanno Polli