Newbie alert!

[leam at reuel.net]

Michael;

Well, a blunt answer that saves me money is a good answer.  ;)

I have no idea how to build and undo packages on Mac OSX, I do on Linux. Thus my higher level of confidence in building it on Linux.If nothing else I could just take the configurations I have for sites that work in dulpicate them. My Mac book has generally been unhelpful in simple things like how to set up NFS, I doubt it would score higher on this.

The hardware "classier" issue is that I have an Apple store in town, and CompUsa sells them as well. THe x86 laptops they sell don't quite make the "classy grade, for me.

Well, at this point I've built the sites on an external web-host and my plan is to demo to them with a dial-up connection. I'm still also working on the Mac OS issue but my hopes aren't high.

ciao!

leam


On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 01:59:26AM +0000, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> 
> On 04/02/2005 06:45:17 AM, leam at reuel.net wrote:
> >I'm in a spot and could use your help.
> >
> >This Thursday I'll have a chance to demo a website package to a
> >client. The demo I plan is Apache/MySQL/PHP based and will just be a
> >dummy site run on a laptop.
> >
> >Today, Saturday, I have no laptop. :P
> >
> >My options seem to be:
> >	1. Try to get the software working on my wifes Mac OS X
> >machine.
> >	2. Get an X86 based laptop from Compusa (Comapq/HP/Sony) and
> >put Red Hat on it.
> >	3. Blow off the Demo.
> >	4. Get a Mac and try to get Fedora PPC to run on it.
> >
> >1. Has been holding me up for a week. I'm not a programmer by trade
> >and this is a side job so most of my time goes to my day job.
> 
> If you can not get it working on OS X, what makes you think getting it  
> working on Linux will be easier? If what you need is a basic LAMP  
> (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) then substituting OS X for Linux should just  
> work in most cases - if you don't know why it isn't working on OS X  
> then there is a good chance you won't get it to work on Red Hat /  
> Fedora. Sorry to be blundt - but it's not a programming thing, it's a  
> setup/sysadmin thing.