[colug-432] MacOS environment Re: hackintosh build tips/advice?

[Rick Hornsby]

On November 15, 2016 at 12:40:09, Jeff Frontz (jeff.frontz at gmail.com) wrote:


On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Rick Troth <rmt at casita.net> wrote:

> Does OS X support any kind of *remote access*? (I've used VNC for years.
> I find MS RDP to be better in that it carries audio and allows screen
> resizing. What does OS X do?)
>

As you've said, MacOS is basically Unix (with an X-like windowing
environment -- you can even run X if you want); there's VNC and ssh (and
the seemingly proprietary Back To My Mac, as well as Apple Remote Desktop).

TBH, I don't know that I've ever gotten Back to my Mac working. I usually
just use the built-in VNC server (locally or remotely forwarded over a
VPN/SSH tunnel), which I think may be what you're referring to by Apple
Remote Desktop?

If you use Homebrew much, I'd like to chat off-list. (Or on-list if others
> are interested.) Am trying to bone-up a similar tool from an independent
> linage.
>

For gaining access on MacOS to various FLOSS packages (that are typically
more-robustly-supported only on Linux), I primarily use fink-- though
several years back, I tried Homebrew (when fink hadn't caught up with the
latest MacOS release). I got annoyed at something in Homebrew (I forget
what) and went back to fink.  There's also MacPorts.  For some [perhaps
dated] discussion, see
https://www.quora.com/Should-I-use-Fink-MacPorts-Homebrew-or-something-else-for-MacOS-package-management
 .

Yep, I use Homebrew. I switched from MacPorts not because of anything
particularly wrong with it, but because many of the developers I was
working with used brew. It was easier to follow their instructions for
setting up a chef/puppet/etc workstation by going along.

I like brew. It almost always has the things I need - wget, ssh-copy-id,
imagemagick, youtube-dl, etc and usually without much fuss. It's also an
easy way to get things like gnu sed, awk, etc. OS X has sed et al, but they
can be a little bit different mostly around the flags they support.
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