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Porting Unix Command-Line Tools to Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the mmmm-command-lines dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Over at Apple has posted a technote on porting Unix programs to Mac OS X. Nothing earth-shattering, but nice to see it all collected."

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  1. Unix tools... already ported! by 1155 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, if your a unix head, using a mac, and have been under a rock for a long time, here ya go


    http://www.osxgnu.org/ Go here for packages to install.

    http://fink.sf.net Wow, apt-get for os x

    http://finkcommander.sf.net Wow, a gui for fink

    http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/x11for macosx.html An x11 server that uses quartz extreme (or whatever you want to call it)


    There are many other things to use, too