[UPHPU] php on Mac

[jtaber]

good news! - hopefully this email makes it after countless hrs trying to
fight my old computer - on my trip I'll try to find an apple store and
check out.   thks everyone

Caleb Call wrote:
> In case you didn't see, the Macbooks were released today.
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> On Monday, May 15, 2006, at 12:20 PM, Caleb Call wrote:
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>> Neo Office is the same as Open Office but for Macs.  The Apple Store
>> won't know anymore than we know as far as release dates.  I'd give it
>> a week just to make sure.  You can definitely boot into Ubuntu (I
>> even have a disc I could give you so you don't have to download it). 
>> I don't know about dual boot (never had a need to) on the intels you
>> can use parallels program (Boot Camp won't boot linux) the PPCs may
>> be able to if you setup two partitions off the bat, google it and see
>> if anyone else has done it.
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>> The Apache Conf file is the exact same as it is under linux (its in
>> /etc/httpd/httpd.conf), so if you can setup apache for local only
>> under linux then I see no reason you wouldn't be able to do it under
>> OS X.  You could probably even just use your same conf file if you
>> wanted to.
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>> On Monday, May 15, 2006, at 12:11 PM, John Taber wrote:
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>>> Orson Jones wrote:
>>>>> visit apple store I'll be sure to ask about it.  I know Mac is BSD
>>>>> based, reason I consider it okay, but after using Linux for 5 yrs,
>>>>> any slight change is painful.
>>>> Well, you _can_ install linux on mac hardware. :-)
>>>> Ease the pain, use Linux.
>>>> Heh, well in your case anyway.
>>>
>>> Well actually I'm thinking I might be able to dual-boot Osx and
>>> Linux on intel macs - to at least help the transition (just since
>>> I've got lots of stuff set up for Ubuntu and can get work out until
>>> the learning curve is over and most rpts are in open office which
>>> I've heard doesn't run on Mac).  Apple store not helpful on arrival
>>> date of new intel ibooks - though I need to make a decision asap
>>> (and cant' afford Pro right now).
>>>
>>> I've learned the hard way - with pc's (especially laptops) you get
>>> what you pay for so even if Dell is less money, so is the quality.
>>>
>>> More Mac PHP questions:
>>> 1) does OSX use same Apache conf that will allow me to run only as
>>> localhost for development so it's not open to public ?  Anyone else
>>> set up this way ?
>>>
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