<OT> learning OSX from a Linux perspective

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 10/17/07, Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2007, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> >I'm getting stuck with having to admin some OSX systems.  Sadly, I
> >can't blow them away and install Linux, so I'm going to have to
> >actually learn how OSX works under the GUI.  Does anyone know of any
> >decent web sites which go over how OSX differs from Linux, or how to
> >admin an OSX system if you already have a Linux background?
> >
> >I basically need to know all the basics (user creation, daemons, init
> >scripts, package mgmt, etc).  thanks
>
> O'Reilly has a couple of books that may be useful, ``Mac OS X Tiger for
> Unix Geeks'' is the latest that I've seen.  There are other tomes available
> that may be useful if one has to get down and dirty with internal things,
> but I've rarely had user for them.  Apple has been getting away from their
> NeXT based management to one that's more standard Unix (and the next
> release, Leopard, is fully certified Unix by the Open Group).

That's good, cause Leopard is what I'm using.  Err, will be using.
yea, that's what i meant.  ;)

>
> I'm using the OpenPKG portable package management system on our in-house
> machines to get some open source and locally developed software working.
> OpenPKG handles the run control for software installed under it, in a
> manner that's very close to FreeBSD.

I stumbled across darwinports.com today, and it looks like a decent
package mgmt system, although its annoying that I have to build
everything from source.  I was going to use Fink, but their retarded
installer doesn't like that i'm not running the latest officially
released version, and refuses to proceed.

>
> BTW:  I recently read a posting from somebody who has tried various
> flavours of Linux on Mac hardware, only to find that OS X was faster and
> more eficient, which surprised me.

WHere did you read that?  I guess its not too xurprising, seeing as
how people have been claiming that *BSD is faster than Linux for
years.