*NIX tip for new OS X users - Terminal
Most of *NIX folks like to use the command line/text mode to do things. In my case I find it's a lot faster to access programs from the command line than it is to go through and hunt many layers down through the GUI. The Mac really didn't have a text mode as far as I could tell, until they switched over from the classic System software to OS X.
Of course accessing the shell (which is called Terminal) is done through the Finder. Open up the primary hard drive. Locate the Utilities folder. Near the bottom is an icon labelled "Terminal". Do not confuse this with the one labelled "Console". Terminal is the program which gets the user into text mode.
It is possible to duplicate the program on the desktop or the dock (the menu bar with the icons). Most of the *NIX commands I have tried so far work.
Of course accessing the shell (which is called Terminal) is done through the Finder. Open up the primary hard drive. Locate the Utilities folder. Near the bottom is an icon labelled "Terminal". Do not confuse this with the one labelled "Console". Terminal is the program which gets the user into text mode.
It is possible to duplicate the program on the desktop or the dock (the menu bar with the icons). Most of the *NIX commands I have tried so far work.
posted by Mike at 10:36 p.m.
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