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Re: MacLINUX

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Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> writes:

> On 2014-01-21, Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> writes:
> >
> >> On 2014-01-21, Fred McKenzie <fmmck@aol.com> wrote:
> >> > In article <ll61pew4c2.fsf@ethel.the.log>,
> >> >  Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> It looks a lot like it at the system level:  the filesystem, the
> >> >> shell, the utility programs, etc.
> >> >> 
> >> >> The Gnome GUI might be very different looking than the GUI you have on
> >> >> Raspbian (or you may not have a GUI on Raspbian).
> >> >
> >> > I replaced Gnome with LXDE, and it has a simpler desktop.  It is 
> >> > probably as close as I will get to Raspbian on a Mac.
> >> 
> >> Why would you bother attempting to duplicate Raspbian on Mac anyway?
> >
> > So he can learn how to use Raspbian in a less constrained environment.
> >
> > I'm not saying this is a good way of doing that - I don't know enough
> > about Raspbian to know.
> 
> I guess I find myself wondering what constraints we're talking about. I
> assume one can ssh/telnet into a device running Raspbian,

Yes.

> which should
> give you direct access to all of the goodies needed to learn. 

Well, just for starters, you may not have room to install your
favorite web browser (depending on what that is) so as you program and
run into questions, you might be frustrated by the process of getting
them answered.

Plus the machine is slow, so it takes longer to find out things don't
work.  

And, if like me you are an emacs guy, you might find the mouse
capabilities of the version of emacs that Raspbian runs are
frustrating.  

Then there is the question of things like software develepment tools.
As you are programming, it could be nice to be doing it on a full
computer with lots of tools, only importing the finished product to
Raspbian.
 
Etc.  There are really a lot of reasons why one might want to
experience a similar operating system running on a proper computer
before plunging yourself into an environment with haveily limited
speed, memory and storage space.

> Trying to
> make some other Linux distribution mimic Raspbian will present
> challenges of its own and is bound to complicate the learning process at
> least somewhat for someone unfamiliar with *nix.

Yes, probably.  It isn't what I'd do, I expect, but I come from a
place of already having some unix familiarity.

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MacLINUX Fred McKenzie <fmmck@aol.com> - 2014-01-17 18:31 -0500
  Re: MacLINUX JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-01-17 18:38 -0500
    Re: MacLINUX Fred McKenzie <fmmck@aol.com> - 2014-01-17 23:28 -0500
      Re: MacLINUX JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-01-18 00:18 -0500
  Re: MacLINUX Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2014-01-17 17:40 -0800
    Re: MacLINUX Fred McKenzie <fmmck@aol.com> - 2014-01-17 23:16 -0500
  Re: MacLINUX Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> - 2014-01-17 22:37 -0800
    Re: MacLINUX isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2014-01-18 13:45 -0800
      Re: MacLINUX Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> - 2014-01-18 17:01 -0800
      Re: MacLINUX Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-01-19 10:41 -0500
        Re: MacLINUX Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-19 18:58 +0000
  Re: MacLINUX Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-01-18 10:52 -0500
    Re: MacLINUX Fred McKenzie <fmmck@aol.com> - 2014-01-18 16:37 -0500
      Re: MacLINUX Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-01-18 14:35 -0800
        Re: MacLINUX Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-19 04:26 +0000
      Re: MacLINUX Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-19 01:54 +0000
      Re: MacLINUX Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2014-01-20 12:52 -0800
  Re: MacLINUX Barry OGrady <atheist@hotmail.com.au> - 2014-01-20 14:57 +1100
    Re: MacLINUX "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com> - 2014-01-20 04:54 +0000
      Re: MacLINUX Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-20 05:02 +0000
        Re: MacLINUX "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com> - 2014-01-20 09:34 +0000
          Re: MacLINUX Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-20 18:35 +0000
            Re: MacLINUX "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com> - 2014-01-20 19:19 +0000
              Re: MacLINUX Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-20 19:54 +0000
            Re: MacLINUX Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-01-20 13:13 -0800
              Re: MacLINUX Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2014-01-20 14:04 -0800
                Re: MacLINUX Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-01-20 14:10 -0800
                Re: MacLINUX Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2014-01-20 14:25 -0800
                Re: MacLINUX Fred McKenzie <fmmck@aol.com> - 2014-01-20 18:38 -0500
                Re: MacLINUX Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2014-01-20 16:45 -0800
                Re: MacLINUX Fred McKenzie <fmmck@aol.com> - 2014-01-21 12:26 -0500
                Re: MacLINUX Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-21 17:41 +0000
                Re: MacLINUX Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2014-01-21 10:24 -0800
                Re: MacLINUX Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-21 20:48 +0000
                Re: MacLINUX Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2014-01-21 12:55 -0800
                Re: MacLINUX Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-21 21:20 +0000
                Re: MacLINUX Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2014-01-21 13:47 -0800
                Re: MacLINUX Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-01-22 02:22 -0800
                Re: MacLINUX Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-22 16:28 +0000
    Re: MacLINUX Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-20 05:01 +0000
  Re: MacLINUX "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com> - 2014-01-20 19:19 +0000
    Re: MacLINUX Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-20 19:55 +0000

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