Justin Ewing Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 for some reson when i boot backtrack on my mac book. it types everyletter twice . so is there anything eles i can use? that it like backtrack? or anything that would fix the problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleted Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 when you get to the splash screen saying Backtrack and it says Boot, type "bt autoexec=...;bt autoexec=startx;bt autoexec=xconf;startx" (without quotes) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JokerKing Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 BTW, you can use any Linux CD on a Mac. Infact, OS X is based on BSD, which is the base of many Linux distros. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 Infact, OS X is based on BSD, which is the base of many Linux distros. ...wha? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jollyrancher82 Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 BTW, you can use any Linux CD on a Mac. Infact, OS X is based on BSD, which is the base of many Linux distros. LOL. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleted Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 Infact, OS X is based on BSD, which is the base of many Linux distros. Linux and BSD ar variations of Unix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeoneE1se Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 Joke of the day right there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jollyrancher82 Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 Infact, OS X is based on BSD, which is the base of many Linux distros. Linux and BSD ar variations of Unix. Neither are variations of Unix. They're Unix-like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleted Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 Infact, OS X is based on BSD, which is the base of many Linux distros. Linux and BSD ar variations of Unix. Neither are variations of Unix. They're Unix-like. Thats what I meant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 Linux is for people who couldn't afford Unix back in the day, an educational OS originally. BSD isn't the same as Linux and it's only derived from Unix and isn't Unix itself. Oh, and OSX isn't based on BSD, it just has some BSD glued on the side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metatron Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 http://www.infsq.co.uk/images/vader/vader-fail.jpg[/img] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 Probably a dumb question, but if Apple uses open source software in their OS, do they ship it with the source code? I mean, you hear a lot of lawsuits lately about companies getting sued because they didn't ship the Source Code along with the OS or their hardware that runs open source code. Not so much that it wasn't licensed but wasn't made available by the companies that use it. EX: http://www.informationweek.com/news/showAr...cleID=204806058 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metatron Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 Probably a dumb question, but if Apple uses open source software in their OS, do they ship it with the source code? I mean, you hear a lot of lawsuits lately about companies getting sued because they didn't ship the Source Code along with the OS or their hardware that runs open source code. Not so much that it wasn't licensed but wasn't made available by the companies that use it. EX: http://www.informationweek.com/news/showAr...cleID=204806058 They don’t have to release anything, if you take code from BSD no matter how much or how little you don’t have to resubmit it or releases it to the general public. It has a lot fewer restrictions compared to say the GNU general public license. Apple do have a few open projects CUPS being one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jollyrancher82 Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 http://developer.apple.com/opensource/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 BSD is descended from a UNIX variant, linux was just some clone Linus nailed together as a uni project. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1...nix-history.svg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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