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I haven't tried it, but they say "it kind of works". No fink necessary (even though it's in the URL), just bittorrent and .dmg images.

http://koffice.darwinports.com/ http://ranger.users.finkproject.org/kde/index.php/ Home The second one's easier, as it's torrented dmg files :)

GAIM for Mac OS X http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/gaim

One is the number of options. Can't do it this way, try that way. You aren't forced to do things the same way everybody does, there may be another more efficient way to do the particular type of work that you do.

That's a completely theoretical argument. Could you name some exact situations where OS X forced you to do something that was not as efficient as it could have been if they had given you multiple options? If we're just talking theory, then it could also be said that it doesn't matter how many options there are to do something as long as the best one is available. If the best one can be presented, then what's the point in offering less efficient options?

With synaptic or adept, available in any Debian-like Linux, you have tens of thousands of software packets which you can install with a couple of mouse clicks. Installing software on the Mac is also very easy, but you have to get that software before you start installing.

Simply not true. With Fink or DarwinPorts, you can install software in the same way that programs like apt-get handle it. While they don't have quite as many packages in them as Debian's repositories, they've still got more than most people would ever need to install; if there's something they don't have, there's nothing stopping you from downloading and compiling it yourself. Sure, there are a few programs that don't work -- but the whole point of the open source community is that surely there's another option you can use, right?

I've installed KDE on Ubuntu,

Big deal - you can install KDE on OS X - but I wouldn't point out something in KDE as a problem with OS X as it's not the primary UI.

The shareware fee is $30.

One of the unusual things about the "hacked" machine was that Fink was installed. This most likely means that the Apple developer tools were installed (although Fink can install precompiled binaries), making it possible for the hacker to bring his own code and compile on the system. Although Apple ships the developer tools on the OS X client install DVD, it is not installed by default, nor is X11.

Fink lists a catalog of 6359 open source projectsthat can be installed, many of which are tools that could help a hacker exploit a machine or that are exploitable in themselves. Fink is a Debian style package manager for Mac OS X.

One of the unusual things about the "hacked" machine was that Fink was installed. This most likely means that the Apple developer tools were installed (although Fink can install precompiled binaries), making it possible for the hacker to bring his own code and compile on the system. Although Apple ships the developer tools on the OS X client install DVD, it is not installed by default, nor is X11.

Fink lists a catalog of 6359 open source projects that can be installed, many of which are tools that could help a hacker exploit a machine or that are exploitable in themselves.

You do know that Gnucash will run on OSX, right? Fink ported it.

http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/amarok

http://blog.chris.de/archives/236-amaroK-on-MacOS- X.html

Absolutely. While I'm on OS X, I'll sometimes fire up X11 in fullscreen mode, using ion as the window manager. Nothing like clearing out the visual+mental space to get some coding or writing done.

Although it's an older version, ion is available in Fink unstable, as is ratpoison.

Absolutely. While I'm on OS X, I'll sometimes fire up X11 in fullscreen mode, using ion as the window manager. Nothing like clearing out the visual+mental space to get some coding or writing done.

Although it's an older version, ion is available in Fink unstable, as is ratpoison.

You can get HFSTAR (attribute preserving TAR) from Fink. Not that it's necessary. Apple fixed the BSD utilities in 10.4. Hasn't anyone been paying attention? ;-)

I use the "unstable" fink tree. It has tetex-3.0 as of today. It works just fine: I wrote my dissertation with it with no troubles. See here: http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/tetex That link also shows that tetex-3.0 is available on the stable tree. Just do "fink install tetex" (or maybe "fink install bundle-tetex".

teTeX is a complete bundled LaTeX installation: http://www.tug.org/teTeX/

There are GUI TeX environments for OS X, but I never bothered to learn them (like iTeXMac or something). See this: http://ii2.sourceforge.net/tex-index.html