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Mac OS X Tiger for Unix Geeks, 3rd Edition
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Mac OS X Tiger for Unix Geeks, 3rd Edition

by Ernest E. Rothman, Brian Jepson
June 2005
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
415 pages
11h 27m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Part I. Getting Around

This part of the book orients you to Mac OS X’s unique way of expressing its Unix personality. You’ll start out with a quick overview of the Terminal application—Mac OS X’s Unix interface—and then go on to learn more about Spotlight and searching, the filesystem, startup processes, and more. You’ll also see how to run Linux on your Mac, as well as how to run Mac OS X on x86 PCs.

Chapters in this part of the book include:

Chapter 1, Inside the Terminal

Chapter 2, Searching and Metadata

Chapter 3, The Mac OS X Filesystem

Chapter 4, Startup

Chapter 5, Directory Services

Chapter 6, Printing

Chapter 7, The X Window System

Chapter 8, Multimedia

Chapter 9, Third-Party Tools and Applications

Chapter 10, Dual-Boot and Beyond

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