On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:29 AM, brice rebsamen wrote: > HI Bonjour Brice, > I'm about to buy a laptop for the project (obviously we will be > running ROS everyday). There is a Mac culture here. But I have never > had a Mac before. If I get one, I will probably install Ubuntu on it > to run ROS, since it seems the Mac version of ROS is still not fully > running. I don't want to struggle with ROS installation. I am very > familiar with Linux but I have never installed it on a Mac, and I know > that one of my friends had trouble with that (I think the partitioning > phase was the problem). I have a MBP also. I agree with you that installing ROS on mac os x is somewhat difficult, but now we try to collect all information about the installation here: https://github.com/wjwwood/ros-osx/wiki The more we are, the easier it will be to use ROS on Mac OS X ;-) Best regards, -- Serge Stinckwich UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC), Hanoi, Vietnam Every DSL ends up being Smalltalk http://doesnotunderstand.org/