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Install Slash on Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the that-is-fantastic-news dept.

bcapps2012 writes "I just saw this on Slashcode.com and thought it would be of interest to many apple.slashdot.org readers. Pudge has gotten Slashcode installed on Mac OS X. As jwachter notes: 'For those of you who haven't been following the issue of how to get slash running on OS X, various Slashcode posters have been asking how to get it done for roughly 2 or 3 years now (essentially since the first preview of OS X was released).' Finally Mac OS X has joined the family."

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  1. One question... by Sheetrock · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I thought Mac OS X was BSD-derived and largely compatible with Linux stuff, especially with something like Apache which is pretty vanilla, looking over Slash I doubt it's too horrible about its demands on a Unix-like platform. What caused the problems?

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    1. Re:One question... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      No, OS X is not compatible with Linux stuff. OS X IS compatible with most GNU and other open source applications based on unix like frameworks.

    2. Re:One question... by bcapps2012 · · Score: 2, Interesting

      I'll tell you why it's important to me (and why I contributed Pudge's story in the first place). I am working to set up a Slashdot-site for use by the San Francisco Bay Area watershed and open space community. This will be the discussion side of an on-line GIS system to track environmental restoration and creek protection projects.

      In addition, I will be setting up an archive to capture printed/digital publications, volunteer monitoring data, and project photographs. (Kinda like a SunSite, but not quite.) Anyone know anything about HDF/XML?

      After becoming a devoted Slashdot reader over the past 3 years since OS X 10.0, I wouldn't think of using anything else to run the site.

      I'm looking for a host that would be willing to house the site and help me get it configured, but I need to mirror the functionality from home. I'm brand new to Apache, mySQL, and perl, but am trying to learn fast. Eventually, I would like to see this whole project housed on an XServe co-located someplace else, but to start I want to run this all from my iMac. (Why the hell not, I say? Steve Jobs is no saint, but Apple seems to be doing a damn fine job brdiging the gap between the casual computer user and everything that is the command line.)

      Suggestions are welcome here, or via email. Thanks!

      PS: I may be straight, but I ain't narrow. Thank you to everyone on these lists that provides valid feedback (instead of recycled off-topic crap.)

  2. How about Win32? by jpop32 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Anyone managed that?

    I have an idea for a web site and I'd like to toy with it on my home machine (W2k), and if it turns out ok I'd go public (on Linux, naturally).

    1. Re:How about Win32? by Steve+Cowan · · Score: 2, Interesting

      If you would be developing a site with the intention of going live on Linux, why not just install Linux in a separate partition and only have to go through installation headaches once?

  3. Why didn't someone just ask MacSlash? by mike_lynn · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They've been running Slashcode on an XServe for quite some time now, they even mention it here.
    Somehow I doubt it's taken this long to get Slashcode running on OS X. OS X tends to be semi-trivial to port to for non-hardware or assembly code dependant software.

    1. Re:Why didn't someone just ask MacSlash? by dema · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Also, if you read this comment it looks like MacSlash wasn't too excited to help someone else get slash code going on Xserve :\

  4. Not as trivial as you would think by hexghost · · Score: 4, Interesting

    First, a little background: My company currently hosts cyberlodge.org, basically the first "open source" union. It currently runs on FreeBSD 4.8, and slashcode. We wanted to move it over to an xserve, for political and geek reasons. Suffice to say, its not a simple job getting Slashcode to run on OSX. Many of the perl modules don't build correctly. After about 3 weeks of reading everything on the web, emailing macslash (getting nothing back), chatting with pudge on irc, etc, we finally gave up. Guess i'll have to check it out again.

  5. OS X Server only? by piecewise · · Score: 3, Interesting

    will this work only on OS X Server or can it work on OS X "Client"... 10.2.6?

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