[ale] linux and apples

[Alan Stewart]

Aaron, check out the Fink project:

> The Fink project wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source 
> <http://www.opensource.org/> software to Darwin 
> <http://www.opensource.apple.com/> and Mac OS X 
> <http://www.apple.com/macosx/>. We modify Unix software so that it 
> compiles and runs on Mac OS X ("port" it) and make it available for 
> download as a coherent distribution. Fink uses Debian 
> <http://www.debian.org/> tools like dpkg and apt-get to provide 
> powerful binary package management. You can choose whether you want to 
> download precompiled binary packages or build everything from source. 


Gimp, X11, KDE. They're at http://fink.sourceforge.net/

Openoffice.org has a Mac OS X porting project.

aaron wrote:

> Personally, I would like to have certain familiar programs like Kmail and
>
>Worker and Nedit and Gimp. I would also like the interface choices and 
>flexibility that X window managers offer. An essential for our facility would 
>be Open Office, as I would LOVE to finish eliminating the viral Micro$haft 
>products from our OSeX systems; having switched everyone away from Exploiter 
>use, M$ Orifice is about the last dark hole that needs filling in.
>
>peace
>aaron
>  
>

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D. Alan Stewart
Senior Software Developer
Layton Graphics, Inc.
155 Woolco Drive
Marietta, GA 30065
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