Re: Etch for Mac
Stevan Gengo wrote:
I'm attempting create a webpage using iWeb. I purchased a domain name,
but I was told by tech support at GoDaddy where I purchased the name
that I would need to get "etch" software to get my site recognized by
the various search engines.
My questions are these: Which version of etch should I buy, and is
there someplace in the San Francisco Bay Area I can purchase the
disk(s)? (I saw the many vendors on your website, but I am at a loss
as to which version I need to get). My Mac is a desktop G5. I am not
running the most recent Apple released system. (I believe I still have
Tiger installed). If you recommend simply downloading the software
from your site, I would do that but it sounds like purchasing a disk
causes fewer problems of installation for someone who is not a
computer professional.
Hey Stevan!
You've gotten some bad and/or misleading information. Whatever GoDaddy
meant by "etch", I'm pretty confident they did not mean Debian Etch.
Debian is an operating system, like Mac OS/X or Windows XP is an
operating system. Whereas OS/X is designed to run on Apple Mac hardware,
and Windows is designed to run on "PC"-style hardware, Debian can run on
either (as well as lots of other types of hardware, like telephones and
car radios and server-class machines in the bowels of an IT business,
etc). Etch is to Debian as Tiger is to OS/X; it's a version of Debian.
Whereas you could download Debian and install it on your Macintosh, I
seriously doubt that's what you want to do, as it would require a level
of knowledge more akin to being a "computer professional" than you
indicate yourself to be. (But you could download and burn and boot from
a LiveCD (Google for Kubuntu for Mac or LiveCD for Macintosh, etc) and
boot from the LiveCD for a non-harmful demo of what a Debian-style OS
would look like on your Mac.)
I can't for the life of me figure out what the GoDaddy tech support
intended to tell you; I don't know of any quick way to get search
engines to find your pages other than to do a good job of putting
keywords into the appropriate section of you HTML headers.
--
Kent
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