OS X to Linux transition - Help needed!

Shawn Gordon yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Wed Jul 3 15:00:01 2002


Thanks David.

We are working on both an OS X version and a more official manner of making 
linux PPC builds, we have one currently but it is getting a bit old.  This 
should all be resolved within the next month as I finally bought the lead 
Quanta developer an iBook :).

At 12:56 PM 7/3/2002, David Dahl wrote:
>Quanta is amazing! and, I am using it on YDL 2.3! (i don't think it
>works on ydl 2.2, w/ qt2, i tried...)
>
>you can buy the ppc linux version, they just don't mention it on thier
>site...
>there is a simple tweak you have to make to a path once it is installed
>as well:
>
> >>theKompany tech support>>copy files /usr/local/qt/etc/settings/quanta*
>to ~/.qt/
>
>it rocks, i think it is better than bbedit as it has a tabbed interface
>for all source files.
>
>david
>
>
>On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 14:08, William C. Taggart wrote:
> > are you guys using UFS partitions with OS X? If so, this will make it run
> > very slow, according to what I have heard...
> >
> > Quanta rocks by the way. It is better that BBEdit...wish I would get it
> > for YDL>
> >
> > William Taggart
> > wtaggar@mail.uark.edu
> > Graduate Student
> > Department of Anthropology and
> > King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies
> > University of Arkansas
> > http://comp.uark.edu/~wtaggar
> >
> > On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Michael Baer wrote:
> >
> > > >>>>> "David" == David Dahl <david@ddahl.com> writes:
> > >
> > >     David> On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 23:23, Chris Ruprecht wrote:
> > >     >> I believe so. I'm currently running RedHat 7.3 on a company
> > >     >> notebook (Acer, 600 MHz) and the machine is just so much faster
> > >     >> then this stupid MacOS X. I HATE MacOS X - I just don't want to
> > >     >> live without the very good applications which are out there for
> > >     >> it.
> > >     >>
> > >     >> And of course, BBEdit - how could I forget? I use vim
> > >     >> extensively on Linux, and I really like vim - but there is no
> > >     >> substitue for "Open from FTP server". Can't we convince
> > >     >> BareBones to port it to Linux?
> > >
> > >
> > >     David> That is why i just bought quanta gold from thekompany.com
> > >     David> (they have 3.3 as a linuxppc binary) and supports open from
> > >     David> ftp.  but, it won't really run without qt3 installed, so i
> > >     David> will wait for my YDL 2.3 disks to use it.
> > >
> > > Not to start any religious wars :), but if you want a free editor that
> > > does ftp file reads, xemacs can (I believe with the default install)
> > > do open from ftp. If you add tramp, you can edit files with ftp,
> > > rsh/rcp, or, (my favorite) ssh/scp.
> > >
> > >     David> yeah, MacOS X is sooo slooow on my tibook 400.  its
> > >     David> ridiculous.  apple should at least let us turn off half of
> > >     David> the hoggy-drop shadow crap.
> > >
> > > way slow on mine too. I like the idea of pdf graphics, but the current
> > > reality just doesn't seem worth using.
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
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Regards,

Shawn Gordon
President
theKompany.com
www.thekompany.com
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