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From: Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: MacLINUX
Date: 21 Jan 2014 10:24:40 -0800
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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.