Good Books on Darwin UNIX? (OS X)
Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 6:32 pm
I want to learn and understand how OS X sits on top of Darwin UNIX on my Mac. As in, I'd like to know how to do most of the things I can do with the GUI by using the command line instead (changing stuff in system preferences, installing & removing apps, adding users etc etc) so that things can be done remotely. I've changed preferences etc using "defaults write" before but only by blindly following tutorials... I'd like to be able to make educated guesses myself 
I'm quite up on Linux server administration so there are HUGE similarities but then on the same token there are big differences. I've searched and searched for books which deal with Darwin as a pure UNIX system but I just can't find any that aren't aimed at Desktop users.... they all talk about doing things through the GUI.
Anybody a bit of OS X/UNIX geek who can recommend any good books on the subject?
EDIT | Haha, but how cool is this?
I'm abusing my old (unusued, but still not deleted) VDS server by installing Debian Sarge+Gnome o it then X11 forwarding the desktop to my Mac 
Debian Sarge/Gnome running remotely (fullscreen) on a Mac: http://w3style.co.uk/~d11wtq/deb-remote.jpg
I do find it quite amusing how even though it *is* Gnome running through X11 on OS X, it still has the OS X traffic lights at the top left of all the windows
I'm quite up on Linux server administration so there are HUGE similarities but then on the same token there are big differences. I've searched and searched for books which deal with Darwin as a pure UNIX system but I just can't find any that aren't aimed at Desktop users.... they all talk about doing things through the GUI.
Anybody a bit of OS X/UNIX geek who can recommend any good books on the subject?
EDIT | Haha, but how cool is this?
Debian Sarge/Gnome running remotely (fullscreen) on a Mac: http://w3style.co.uk/~d11wtq/deb-remote.jpg
I do find it quite amusing how even though it *is* Gnome running through X11 on OS X, it still has the OS X traffic lights at the top left of all the windows