<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap:break-word"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div> <br> <div id="bloop_sign_1479238365518995968" class="bloop_sign"></div> <br><p class="airmail_on">On November 15, 2016 at 12:40:09, Jeff Frontz (<a href="mailto:jeff.frontz@gmail.com">jeff.frontz@gmail.com</a>) wrote:</p> <div><div><blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Rick Troth<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rmt@casita.net" target="_blank">rmt@casita.net</a>></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF">Does OS X support any kind of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><u>remote access</u>? (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?)</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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).</div></div></div></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><p>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?</p><div><blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF">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.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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 <a href="https://www.quora.com/Should-I-use-Fink-MacPorts-Homebrew-or-something-else-for-MacOS-package-management">https://www.quora.com/Should-I-use-Fink-MacPorts-Homebrew-or-something-else-for-MacOS-package-management</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>.</div></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div></div><p>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.</p><p>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.</p></body></html>