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GNU-Darwin Goes Beta

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-that's-easy dept.

proclus writes "OSX.1 users can now install the GNU-Darwin base distribution automatically with one command. As Root: "curl http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net/one_stop | csh"." This assummes you have curl or wget or something. From there you can install gnome, abiword, gimp or whatever. Looks pretty smooth (although I'm kinda confused how you get back to OSX.1 from there ;)

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  1. OK Taco... by dhovis · · Score: 1, Redundant
    Curl comes installed by default in MacOS X 10.1. Wget was the default in MacOS X 10.0

    Sheesh. Why do you think they said it would only take one command?

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  2. Security by (char+*)+jmi · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Uh, isn't that command a bit dangerous? Downloading a script from a possibly untrusted website and executing it as root without even reading it?! Not a good idea.

    If this continues the crackers only need to compromise one computer-- the packager's webserver-- to get into a whole load of users' boxes...