<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Rick Troth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rmt@casita.net" target="_blank">rmt@casita.net</a>></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 <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><br></div><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">
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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> .</div><div><br></div><div>Jeff</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><br></div></div>