A concise comparison of operating systems. Some focus on root-on-ZFS, and on Plasma. Not intended to be comprehensive.
Describing availability is not necessarily a recommendation to install what's available.
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FreeBSD, GhostBSD, NomadBSD, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, KDE Plasma
This gist is a collection of my rough notes from Strange Loop 2012.
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| # run Apple's Software Update | |
| # open XCode, then XCode(menu)->Preferences->Downloads tab and Install the Command Line Tools | |
| brew update | |
| brew doctor | |
| # follow any instructions - mine are included below | |
| brew tap homebrew/dupes | |
| brew install autoconf automake apple-gcc42 | |
| brew link apple-gcc42 # for some reason this didn't work in prior step |