Topic: e-smith on mac os x

[simon finch]

hi all,

.. just wondering whether anyone has managed to successfully install e-smith on a mac os x machine .. or if anyone else is interested in working with me to try and port it .. any tips, help or feedback gratefully received ..

thanks

simon

[Luke Drumm]

By 'install e-smith on a Mac OS X machine', do you mean attempting to apply e-smith to the existing underbelly of Mac OS X... or do a reformat and start fresh?

In the case of the former, I strongly suspect it would be more pain than what it's worth due mainly to the fact that Apple has already got a whole string of applications doing basically the same job as e-smith. (ie. Providing an easy to interface to system maintenance). You'd be fighting the upper layer of the OS all the way.

For the latter case, my pick would be an existing stable Mac Distro like Yellow Dog (yellowdoglinux.com) for your starting point. I'm not sure how far YellowDog leans away from RedHat in file layout, but I imagine it couldn't be *too* far... surely?

Best of Luck.

Regards,
Luke

[Hex]

Yellow dog is based on redhat. I have it installed on an I-book and I have not noticed any diffrence in layout from redhat besides the logo. I haven't sat down to compair them though.
Thank you,
Hex