Mac for Linux Geeks

1. Front Matter

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2. The Backstory

   Pages 1-16

3. The Comparison: Linux vs. Mac OS X

   Pages 17-39

4. Dual-Booting and Virtualization

   Pages 41-63

5. Building Out the Linux Environment

   Pages 65-80

6. Using the Many Apple and Linux Tools

   Pages 81-123

7. Routine Mac OS X System Administration

   Pages 125-153

8. Backup, Security, and Automation

   Pages 155-193

9. Mac OS X and Code

   Pages 195-232

10. Hybridizing Your System

    Pages 233-258

11. Back Matter

    Pages 259-273

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Some might say we all want Linux with an OS X graphical user interface. Mac for Linux Geeks will assist you step by step in migrating from Linux–based systems to OS X. Dual booting, virtualization, and building out the Linux environment on OS X are discussed in detail, along with a comparative view of well–known Mac tools and their open source equivalents. Written for daily use, this concise and dependable guide will steer you across the technical landscape from your chosen Linux flavor to the OS X promised land.

• Live with OS X, but work with Linux tools
• Make the OS X–Linux hybrid a reality
• Use Mac tools where possible and free software where appropriate

• Administration
• Linux
• Mac OS X
• Open Source
• backup
• graphical user interface
• interface
• scripting
• system administration

Tony Steidler-Dennison is a longtime Linux user, dating his first experience with Linux back to 1996. He's used Linux as his sole operating system at home, developed software on Linux systems, and administered such systems in environments as diverse as robotic telescope control, online shopping, presidential politics, and commercial aviation. Tony has coauthored two books on Linux and over the years, he's written more than a dozen magazine articles on topics from Drupal and content management systems to podcasting with open source tools. Since February 2005, he's engineered and hosted "The Roadhouse Podcast," a weekly hour of "the finest blues you've never heard." Since the purchase of an Intel-based Mac Mini, Tony has become both obsessed and fascinated with the operating system he calls "Linux with a pretty face." Tony is an avionics systems engineer with Rockwell Collins, Inc. in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, engineering open source solutions in the commercial aviation industry.

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