Re: best OS for using gnustep on tiBook?

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Friday, August 30, 2002, at 07:45 PM, Jim McLoughlin wrote:

> Hi folks
>
> I've been playing around with gnustep in windowmaker on freebsd, lurking
> here for a while.  Just ordered a powerbook as I'm itching to use Mac 
> OSX,
> but would also like to create a seprate partition to continue working in
> windowmaker/gnustep.  Ideally this will allow me to design any
> cocoa/objective C work so that I maximize reuse on both platforms
> (separating foundation vs. GUI code).
>
> I assume other folks are tryign this kind of dual setup on the Mac 
> platform,
> so what OS do you recommend?  I'm trying to decide between:
>
> Debian
> Yellow Dog Linux
> Darwin
>
> Which do you guys recommend?  Any links to how-tos on this kind of setup
> greatly appreciated...

I have Debian woody co-habiting with MacOS-X on my powerbook ... I 
installed
it quite a while ago and can't remember any particular difficulties ... 
though
I do recall doing a lot of reading the Debian documentation on the web
beforehand.

So ... no comparisons with other options, just a confirmation that 
Debian works.