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  1. Eterm by Cecil · · Score: 3, Informative · on Decent Terminal Emulation on Mac OS X?

    If you're a fan of Eterm (I am), you have two options available to you:



    • Pick up an older, but pre-ported copy (this one is version 8.10.0)
    • Grab the CVS sources for the latest Eterm and build it yourself. This is not easy, but it is possible.


    Having the latest Eterm running under Apple's X11 is nice, though I still haven't been able to get it to link with imlib2 successfully (note: I am incompetent at this stuff, YMMV) The only porting really required is to change the typedef for socklen_t to int, or include the appropriate header file (sys/socket.h?). Either works.

    Good luck.
  2. Re:Unix tools... already ported! by goon+america · · Score: 1 · on Porting Unix Command-Line Tools to Mac OS X

    http://macosx.forked.net/ has a fair number of ports and some handy porting tips

  3. Slashdot advertizing getting out of hand! by BFCx · · Score: 1, Offtopic · on Apple Releases Security Update 2002-08-20

    Maybe i should buy a subscription, (Mozilla 1.0 on 10.2)

    Screen shot

  4. Yeah Right by Ahaldra · · Score: 1 · on GPL's Strength
    > So, why hasn't the GPL been successfully challenged yet?

    it has been challenged. the challenge was successful. see this slashdot article and discussion for details.

    in short: the GPL grants you the right to use the software in more ways than the normal copyright grants you. it extends international copyright laws to what stallman et al. call copyleft.
    but that still means you have to obey copyright laws: you have to mark your work as derivative, and conform to the license, which in case of the GPL states that you have to make the sourcecode of your work available.

    So in the linked slashdot article above, in the case of macosx.forked.net that would have meant that they made package desciptor files (".pmsp" on mac os x, the only form one can modify the package. To my understanding it represents the "preferred form" the GPL talks of) available, as well as noting that the files origin were fink packages, both of which they didn't do 'til today.

    so yes, the GPL has been successfully challenged.

  5. Re:Why I hate shareware by kootch · · Score: 2 · on More On Policing Shareware
    maybe you should try here:

    macosx.forked.net

  6. The article has been deleted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Time Canada Shows New iMac

    The article is mirrored here

  7. A Working link by daniel_isaacs · · Score: 2 · on Time Canada Shows New iMac
    Neither Time link is working now. Forked.net has a mirror of the whole article up.

    Here it is.

  8. MacOSX isn't running Xwindow, but it can... by madmancarman · · Score: 1 · on MS Office for OSX? Why not for Unix as Well?
    Many people have already pointed out that MS Office for OS X can't be easily ported to UNIX because it's written using Carbon APIs, but I thought I'd point out that there are a couple ways to implement Xwindow on MacOSX.

    First, there's the XonX project, where they've developed a way to run rootless XFree86. It's kind of a pain to get working, so you need:

    XDarwin, which is a nice way to get XFree86 windows run next to MacOSX's Aqua windows. However, even this has its faults, so I highly recommend:

    OroborOSX, which is an X11 window manager/environment. I've been running 0.75a3 and a4 for a little while now, and it's pretty good. I haven't successfully compiled any X applications for it, but I haven't had much time over Christmas break to work seriously on it.

    If you're looking for UNIX software to run on Mac OS X, try Fink, which aims to port all sorts of UNIX software to OS X. There's also the GNU Mac OS X Public Archive, which I only just found, and some Mac OS X ports on Forked.net, which I used to solve some initial XDarwin issues I was having.

    Anyway, Microsoft wouldn't be able to port Office for OS X to UNIX very easily, we can move UNIX software (and even X11 software) to Mac OS X without too much difficulty.

    First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -Ghandi

  9. Re:Where are the compilers? by Rand+Race · · Score: 2, Informative · on Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X
    ...if anyone knows an easy way to get these let me know.


    Try Fink, it's got, among a mass of other stuff, Make. OS X comes with a version of gcc installed called cc. Fink will probably get you all you want other than that. Here are some common compiling problems and solutions for OS X.

  10. Re:gnome over x? by Ryan+Amos · · Score: 4, Informative · on GNU-Darwin Goes Beta

    Aqua doesn't, however, you can download a rootless X server (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xonx/) that lets you run X apps right along with Aqua apps. The same files are also available on http://macosx.forked.net/ in Mac OS X .pkg files, along with other useful stuff OS X doesn't include, such as ncurses. The window manager, by the way, is whatever window manager you decide to install-- it's just XFree86 ported to a darwin kernel with a rootless option. If you're not running OS X, XDarwin (not XonX) will probably work better for you.. It doesn't have the rootless option, but if you don't have Aqua, you don't really need it. Hope this was of help to some people.

  11. Re:Yeah yeah, BSD is dead by kootch · · Score: 1 · on Mandrake Linux 8.0 Final Released For PPC

    you also have all of the goodies being ported over on http://macosx.forked.net