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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: MacLINUX
Date: 21 Jan 2014 20:48:49 GMT
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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, which should
give you direct access to all of the goodies needed to learn. 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.

To each, his own, though!

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