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My OS usage has evolved from Windows 3.x/9x in the 90s to various Linux distributions in the early 2000s and to FreeBSD which I have been using exclusively since 2002. Today (25th March 2008), I got my company issued Macbook Pro running Mac OS X.
I am new to Mac OS X and to Apple products in general. Lets see how well the transitioning from FreeBSD on a PC Laptop to the Macbook Pro goes.
It's a 2.2Ghz Intel Duo Core Macbook Pro with 2GB of RAM and 120GB HDD running OS X Leopard.
[goldmindfoot-lm:~] shanu% uname -a Darwin faith.local 9.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.4.0: Mon Jun 9 19:30:53 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.5.20~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
219:~ shanu$ sysctl hw hw.ncpu: 2 hw.byteorder: 1234 hw.memsize: 2147483648 hw.activecpu: 2 hw.optional.x86_64: 1 hw.optional.sse4_2: 0 hw.optional.sse4_1: 0 hw.optional.supplementalsse3: 1 hw.optional.sse3: 1 hw.optional.sse2: 1 hw.optional.sse: 1 hw.optional.mmx: 1 hw.optional.floatingpoint: 1 hw.packages: 1 hw.tbfrequency: 1000000000 hw.l2cachesize: 4194304 hw.l1dcachesize: 32768 hw.l1icachesize: 32768 hw.cachelinesize: 64 hw.cpufrequency_max: 2200000000 hw.cpufrequency_min: 2200000000 hw.cpufrequency: 2200000000 hw.busfrequency_max: 800000000 hw.busfrequency_min: 800000000 hw.busfrequency: 800000000 hw.pagesize: 4096 hw.cachesize: 2147483648 32768 4194304 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 hw.cacheconfig: 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 hw.cpufamily: 1114597871 hw.cpu64bit_capable: 1 hw.cpusubtype: 4 hw.cputype: 7 hw.logicalcpu_max: 2 hw.logicalcpu: 2 hw.physicalcpu_max: 2 hw.physicalcpu: 2 hw.machine = i386 hw.model = MacBookPro3,1 hw.ncpu = 2 hw.byteorder = 1234 hw.physmem = 2147483648 hw.usermem = 1897050112 hw.pagesize = 4096 hw.epoch = 0 hw.vectorunit = 1 hw.busfrequency = 800000000 hw.cpufrequency = 2200000000 hw.cachelinesize = 64 hw.l1icachesize = 32768 hw.l1dcachesize = 32768 hw.l2settings = 1 hw.l2cachesize = 4194304 hw.tbfrequency = 1000000000 hw.memsize = 2147483648 hw.availcpu = 2
Macports is a frequently updated repo of OpenSource software for OSX which is very similar to the BSD ports collection. Head over to http://guide.macports.org/#using and install the DMG.
port -v -b install mplayer logjam enlightenment trafshow squid [..]
Fink is another repo (apt- based) of OpenSource software for the Mac OSX platform which seems to have lost some steam in recet times.
Update sudoers as below
Defaults timestamp_timeout=60