Well ... I'm slowly progressing from the 'wonders' of "twm" on to
WindowMaker. I used Darwinports to go and get WindowMaker ... And it worked
well. Took a while, but gives me a step in the right direction when it
comes to a GUI ...
Scott C. Lemon
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Hi Good Forum Folks,
Well we're somewhat boyed by our one small success with
great advice from several Forum Members who finally aided us with getting
our bleedin' CDRom/DVD Combo "finally" up and running, what should have been
an auto configure by an intelligent os hardware probe where Apple Darwin was
concerned, aparently was available or failed. That lack of intellegence on
darwqin's part, finall meant 2 days of trawling the internet with no success
for a workable answer.
Unfortunately these day many equate time to money. We'd be bankrupt under
this roof several week ago. "If" we had to work that way.
We see a lot of this "finally" thingy in forums about our Darwin. It's
nigh on a route march and you need a semi-trailer load of cut lunches of
patience, before some small glimmers of success appear.
It goes with the Territory, as well as lack of sleep, dirty mounting
coffee cups, overflowin' ash trays, and blood shot, strained eyes, and
finally falling asleep, to sleep like the dead. Often with no visable
forward progress made to the day you can actually claim "I do have a woring,
operational, usable Operating System."
That said, we move on to the "next" drama. Nothing new,,,, just another dog
of a Darwin Day !
THE CORE OF OUR POST.
This quaint text thingie "they" call an interface has worn out it's welcome
long ago ...period !!!!
Ok, can anyone advise us of exactly "which", GUI(s) base(s) to work from
that will provide us with, "too the max",,,, utility's, tools,
functionality, gui ppp, etc. etc. aka a ready to rock and roll Linux like
Desktop,,,, that's reall "IS" fully functioning, and totally shield's us
from "that" cryptic, tireing, confusing, and drop dead fread old retro
command prompt ????
BUT...... still offers us a GUI Console ONLY IF "REALLY" NEEDED !
Because as far as we are aware we who are the other box users ...
aka. x86 Hardware users arent't to be given an Aqua Like equivelant by Mr.
and Mrs Apple Mac.
Questions.
Going to xfree86 and or x.org for X11 and gaining the latest .rpm's or
tarballs of their sources ...
they "won't install on Apple Darwin version 8.0.0 ? ????? ...... Without
being specially altered for x86 Hardware and Darwin,,,,
is that our fate????
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In other words is it the case that it's DarwinPorts or nothing ! ????
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IF SO ...... is there some form of automated scripts that are to do a best
guess, with user over ride and or editing, to get your ppp dial in,
configured , Serial Port configured, Modem configured, etc. etc. IF SO.....
where can we obtain them .... the DarwinPorts Site.
Would it be possible to use a non Darwin OS box(PC) to pull the required
tarballs / RPM's down onto it's hdd,,, and then burn a cdrom or dvd
rewriteable with the required GUI software on it.
Then pull it into the AppleDarwin OS box and unarchive or using rpm -i
install the programs. To save the hell,,,, of text based setups from a "sort
of" working Apple Darwin System ?
I have to honestly admit anything we've googled by way of other forums that
aren't run by Apple Open Darwin, GNUDarwin have left a rather noticable icy
freeze under our roof, as far as confidence is concerned. Particularly in
regards other users woe's, weepings and whailings are concerned, involing
getting Apple Darwin Internet bound, and headed in the right direction.
Remember we are running X86 Apple Darwin Version 8.0
Any advice and help would be appreciated.
cheers to all
kelly.
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