hardwarerelated:mac_notes
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macOS X
- Japanese input method switching: after first start, Macos does the first setup - configure then Japanese and English. Later, to change to Japanese input press the かな-key (right from space bar) and the 英文-key left of the space bar for English input.
Software
- https://www.neooffice.org – libreoffice office based office-suite with cocoa-style
- https://www.videolan.org – mediaplayer
- https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/ – control/monitor outgoing traffic
- ports systems
- https://finkproject.org – apt-get like binary alternative to darwinports; to install/update/manage software
Small rosetta stone
There are manpages for the commands…
| function | macosx 10.4.x | linux |
|---|---|---|
| cronjobs | at,cron,launchd.plist(5) | at,cron |
| starterprocess | launchd | init |
| configure start | launchctl,service | vi /etc/inittab, /etc/rc* /etc/init.d/* |
| os-verion | uname, sw_vers | uname, /etc/issue, /etc/redhat-release etc. |
| hardwareinfo | ioreg, system_profiler,sysctl | hwinfo, dmidecode, dmesg |
| cd/dvd burning/service | drutil, hdid, hdiutil | cdrecord, wodim, eject |
| cpuinfo | hostinfo, hwprefs | cat /proc/cpuinfo /proc/* |
| waking/sleeping | pmset | acpid, cpufreqd |
| softwaremanagement | softwareupdate, lsbom,installer | apt-get, dpkg, rpm, yum, emerge |
| performanceanalysis | vm_stat, fs_usage, top | vmstat, top, free |
| syscallanalysis | ktrace | strace |
| inspect libs/bins | otool, sample | ldd, file |
| networkprofiles | configd, scutil, scselect | distrodependent |
| nsswitch config | DirectoryService | /etc/nsswitch.conf /etc/ldap.conf … |
| nsswitch client | dscl | getent hosts, getent passwd |
| access kernelparams | sysctl | sysctl |
| partitionmanagement | diskutil | fdisk, mkfs, mdadm, mount |
| dns-cacher + access | lookupd | nscd, nslookup |
| documentconverting | pstopdf, sips | pstopdf, imagemagick |
| zeroconf | mDNS | avahi-discover |
| interface clipboard | pbcopy, pbpaste | |
| file with gui-app | open <file> |
Linux on Apple silicon
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- package management (details):
- upgrade: pacman -Syu
- installing packages: pacman -S chromium
- searching packages: pacman -Ssq <searchstring>
- list explicitly installed packages: pacman -Qe
- remove single package: pacman -R package_name
- remove package, including its no longer required dependencies: pacman -Rs package_name
- first things
- systemctl enable --now sshd
- Systemupdate: pacman -Syu
- https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/SW:Alternative-Distros further distros
- Fedora
- I settled with https://github.com/leifliddy/asahi-fedora-builder for installation
- dnf install sddm i3
- dnf groupinstall 'KDE Plasma Workspaces'
- systemctl start sddm
- If sddm starts and you can not login, reboot and use kernel option systemd.unit=multi-user.target
Installing Fedora as KVM guest
virsh destroy fed36 2>/dev/null
virsh undefine fed36 --nvram 2>/dev/null
qemu-img create -f qcow2 /tmp/tvm_fed36.qcow2 72G
virt-install -n fed36 -r 4096 --vcpus 4 \
--disk path=/tmp/tvm_fed36.qcow2,format=qcow2,bus=virtio,cache=unsafe \
--location http://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/linux/Fedora/fedora/linux/releases/36/Everything/aarch64/os/ \
--graphics vnc --os-variant fedora35 \
--network bridge=virbr0,model=virtio \
--extra-args "ip=192.168.122.5::192.168.122.1:255.255.255.0:fed36:enp1s0:none nameserver=8.8.8.8"
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