[Speakers] Shorts

[Bruce Smith]

> Perhaps it is time for some more shorts?  A couple or few people with a
> cool idea, tool, or toy they want to show off?  We've done a couple of
> these in the past and they went quite well?
> 
> Anyone have any 10-15 minute topics or demonstrations they've been
> itching to trot out?

Have we beat the Mac OS X stuff to death yet?

Our previous OS X presentations got me interested, but still left me
slightly confused about Darwin, Fink, etc. 

So I managed to get my hands on a new PowerBook at work.  (long story)

I dual booted it with Ubuntu Linux, and ran into some hardware support
issues.  (just like a new model x86 laptop :)

So I decided to try and get OSS running on OS X.  I downloaded the
native Mac versions of Firefox and Thunderbird (nothing to it).

Then I downloaded/installed gcc & friends, and compiled some of my
personal programs I need.

Then I installed XFree86 and got X-Windows running in OS X, plus some
command line Fink OSS programs.

The only bad thing is I'm not sure I can connect the PowerBook to our
projector since it has a wide-aspect display (16x9).

 - BS