Actually I just googled debian vmware and appliance. I can't remember the name of the image, but that should get you something. After getting the image and booting it I had to ssh to it from my MAC terminal and update it to sid, then install speakup. It was fairly painless.
I suppose that if there is enough interest I could put together a generic version of my image with speakup installed and make it available to the public. Keith On Aug 29, 2010, at 2:01 AM, Scott Granados wrote: > Do you have a pointer to a good image? > > On Aug 28, 2010, at 6:29 PM, Keith Watson wrote: > >> All well and good to have these tools available on the MAC. The only problem >> is that VO access to the terminal is cumbersome at best. My solution to this >> is to run a Debian VM and use speakup. Much better access to it's term >> there, and if I need to do anything on my MAC i just ssh over and take care >> of it that way. >> >> Just my 2 cents. >> >> Keith >> >> >> On Aug 28, 2010, at 3:15 PM, Scott Granados wrote: >> >>> Yes, you have telnet, ssh, ftp and all the standard clients you'd expect. >>> I'm sure you could enable daemons to accept connections as well although >>> consider the security implications of doing that please.:) >>> >>> >>> On Aug 28, 2010, at 5:58 AM, Karen Lewellen wrote: >>> >>>> excuse my nose here, but in theory would that let you say tellnet to a >>>> site or service that itself is shell associated? >>>> sorry if I am over guessing what one might do with that sort of bash. >>>> still I would think you could run programs that way? >>>> Karen >>>> >>>> On Sat, 28 Aug 2010, Dave Taylor wrote: >>>> >>>>> I don't know anything about this side of using a Mac at all. Is there a >>>>> good >>>>> place to learn about it, right from scratch? I'll probably hardly need it, >>>>> but would certainly like to know just in case. >>>>> >>>>> Cheers >>>>> Dave >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>>>> [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Josh Kennedy >>>>> Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 10:36 PM >>>>> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>>>> Subject: the unix shell and mac terminal >>>>> >>>>> Hi >>>>> Over the past few weeks I have been running vinux 3.0 lucid in a virtual >>>>> machine and have been playing with it. And then recently I went into the >>>>> terminal on my mac in snow leopard and typed some commands and >>>>> surprisingly >>>>> I find that most of the commands I can perform in vinux I can also do with >>>>> the terminal or the mac's unix shell. It's really cool. The only >>>>> difference >>>>> I can see in the mac is that it uses the darwin kernel while vinux uses >>>>> the >>>>> linux kernel. Oh and guys if you go into a terminal in your mac and type: >>>>> man ls >>>>> you can even read the unix man pages there. The only thing that doesn't >>>>> work >>>>> is apt-get command. I'm not sure if dpkg works or not, I haven't tried it. >>>>> I'll try right now. Well guys dpkg also does not work. The mac's shell >>>>> reminds me very much of vinux 3.0 lucid though. >>>>> If you type >>>>> uname -a >>>>> it will tell you the kernel version among other things. >>>>> If you type: >>>>> man ls >>>>> it will bring up the man page for the ls list directory command. to quit >>>>> the >>>>> man pages just press the letter q,. To close terminal hit command q. You >>>>> can >>>>> even hit tab and it will autocomplete commands for you. I imagine the unix >>>>> shell is very powerful, even on the mac. And I'm glad mac uses the bash >>>>> shell. Vinux uses it too. I doubt voxin would work on the mac since voxin >>>>> I >>>>> think is compiled for the linux kernel and not the darwin version10 >>>>> kernel. >>>>> >>>>> Josh Kennedy >>>>> jkenn...@gmail.com >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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