[ros-users] ROS on Mac-Ubuntu

[Serge Stinckwich]

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:29 AM, brice rebsamen <brice.rebsamen at gmail.com> 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,
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Serge Stinckwich
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