Getting MacBook up and running
I’ve been busy yesterday and today getting my MacBook Pro up and running. I had forgotten how many ancillary applications I use on a regular basis.
One big headache was getting universal binaries for my F/OSS tools.
Turns out, darwinports sucks even more than usual during the intel transition. Luckily Fink installed nicely from source (not that I prefer the huge build times).
Eclipse required a hack to the 3.1.1 release to get working.
Apple’s default install doesn’t have X11. Worse, the downloadable builds of the X11 app don’t install over the intel libraries. I had to install from the restore disk, not exactly comfortable with that.
iCal isn’t universal? WTF.
In any case, most things are working alright. It’ll still be a little rough for a while, but this transition looks to be somewhat smooth, albeit not nearly as smooth as Steve Jobs would have us believe.