[SATLUG] I Mac and Me

[Nate Turnage]

On 5/6/07, Sean Carolan <scarolan at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I should have been more specific.  The last time I worked from the
> command line on a Mac the default shell was tcsh.  I prefer bash but I
> have heard that newer versions of OS X include bash by default?


That is correct.

Most flavors of Linux have better command line tools for package
> management and dependency resolving.  It would be great if Mac had an
> equivalent system to yum or apt, where you could grab new F/OSS
> software with a short command, instead of compiling from scratch.


You can do  this with fink while getting apps from darwinports.

I'm also not a huge fan of the OS X built-in Terminal app, finding
> gnome-terminal to be more customizable to my needs.  When you have
> several ssh sessions open in terminal windows, it's nice to have them
> all in tabs instead of separate windows.  This is not specifically a
> command-line issue, but it is related since you have to use Terminal
> to get to the command line, unless you install a 3rd party app.


Like iTerm. It does everything and more than Gnome terminal.

Nothing against Macs though.  I may get one after my current system
> kicks the bucket.


 That's funny. I want to go the other way. If Photoshop and Flash ever make
it to linux, it's good bye Apple for me. Can't wait to play with Ubuntu
Studio.


~Nate