RootPrompt -- Mac OS X NewsMac OS X news and informationMake Your Linux Desktop Look Like A Mac (31 Oct 2007)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Do you want to give your desktop a dash of Mac OS X The goal of this project is to bring the look and feel of Mac OS X (latest being 1.5, Leopard) to nix GTK based systems. This document will present the procedure to install Mac4Lin pack & tweak certain things to get that almost perfect Mac OS X like desktop.http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=11328 Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: the Ars Technica review (30 Oct 2007)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) They always do a good review."That was exactly two and a half years ago, to the day. It seems that I've gotten my wish and then some. Mac OS X 1.5 Leopard has gestated longer than any release of Mac OS X (other than 1., that is). If I had high expectations for 1.5 back in 25, they've only grown as the months and years have passed. Apple's tantalizingly explicit withholding of information about Leopard just fanned the flames. My state of mind leading up to the release of Leopard probably mathttp://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=11326 Introduction to Porting UNIXLinux Applications to (15 Oct 2007)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) The UNIX Porting Guide is a first stop for UNIX developers coming to Mac OS X. This document helps guide developers in bringing applications written for UNIX-based operating systems to Mac OS X. It provides the background needed to understand the operating system. It touches on some of the design decisions, and it provides a listing and discussion of some of the main areas that you should be concerned with in bringing UNIX applications to Mac OS X. It also points out some of the advanced fehttp://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=11289 How the iPhone can be a web storefront game change (25 Sep 2007)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) What is significant about the iPhone is not necessarily the phone itself, but rather the shift in the way web business will be done now that mobile phones with robust browsers have arrived on the scene. This article discusses the ramifications of purchasing goods and services with your phone and provides the starting point to deploy an Apple iPhone-enabled web storefront.http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=11242 Better OS X Java with Eclipse (30 Jul 2007)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Mac OS X is a powerful platform for Java development. While the Java development environment is fully integrated into Mac OS X, the Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE) brings a fully integrated Java development environment to Mac OS X that provides a consistent cross-platform experience. This article shows you how to use this environment to import existing Xcode projects into Eclipse, tweak key bindings, and integrate Eclipse with the Mac OS X-bundled Concurrent Versions Systehttp://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=11099 OpenMoko Neo1973 - a Linux based phone (16 Jul 2007)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) OpenMoko is a GNULinux based open software development platform. What this means for the lay person is that using OpenMoko software development kit, phone manufacturers will be able to bring out mobile phones which have more or less the same features of the now widely known iPhone from Apple and much more - all this under an Open license powered by GNU. This also means that for the first time there is potential for you to be completely free from being tied up with one mobile carrier or evehttp://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=11060 RAM for Macs (27 Jun 2007)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Upgrade your Mac."RAM upgrades are the best way to get a performance boost from your computer. Mac OS X loves to hog up all the RAM you've got, so the more you have, the better! Here are a few often asked questions and their answers regarding RAM and Macs." Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know About RAM for Macs - MacTalk Forumshttp://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=11003 Create Password Protected PDF Files On Your Mac (22 Jun 2007)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) This article describes in details how to create password protected PDF files on Mac OS X by using a freely available command line utility, as well as an Automator Workflow. Storyhttp://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=10988 sshfs: Securely Mounting Remote Filesystems (10 May 2007)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) It is possible to mount your remote filesystem as a local filesystem on your Red hatCentOS Linux system using sshfs. FUSE is a Linux kernel module also available for FreeBSD, OpenSolaris and Mac OS X that allows non-privileged users to create their own file systems without the need to write any kernel code. SSHFS command utilizes FUSE to mount a file system using ssh. This tutorial will describe installing FUSE, and using sshfs to mount your remote filesystem as a local mount poinhttp://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=10890 Howto open, extract and browse ISO CDDVD formats (19 Apr 2007)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) AcetoneISO is the disk image emulator that mounts images of DVD and CD media. Both Mac OS X and Linux other UNIX like oses can mount and use ISO images using loopback device. It is a DAEMON Tools (Microsoft Windows disk image) clone emulator program with a lot more features. Using this cool open source software means a user does not have to swap discs to run different programs on local or network computer. You can access software distributed (over Internet) as a disk image such as ISO,http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=10825 |