Need a box desparately, went to the confuser store and found that all intel boxen came with XP, dont want to pay the gates tax, trundled over to the apple side and found a reasonably priced imac with OSX and a software bundle. Found a terminal window, mooched around the OS at the cli and said voila BSD(almost). Asked suit about GCC ports, he looked confused. Called a friend who has inet access and asked him to look for gcc or whatever binaries so I could load all my gpl toys I need to minimally function. He stated that he found 500 posts all wondering the same thing and Mac wasnt being very helpful.
Question, do the Gnu tools have ports to powerpc and OSX? Does Mac sell a compiler so I could build my toys? Need to know by friday as I will be owning a new box of some kind, would prefer an IMAC but will get an Emachine for 479.00 if I cant use my toys.
thanx,
bill