On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 8:00 PM, James Kaplan <[email protected]> wrote: > Contemplating a mini Mac. It touts a highly reliable UNIX based OS X > Leopard. How is it hobbled? Is there a selection of non-Apple licensed > software such as Gimp, OpenOffice and xmms cut for it?
Non-Mac user here, but from what I've picked up reading the support mailing list for a cross-platform app I use-- If you install Xcode from the Leopard install CD, you gain access to the Macports collection via apt-get , which includes the Gimp. See <http://www.macports.org/ports.php>. Post-Xcode install, sudo port install gimp should get your the Gimp. I gather that Xcode also gets you GTK. Dunno what else. I know that Sun distributes a port of OOo for OS X and that there is also at least one other port of it. The app I use mentioned above is GTK-based and is also distributed in .DEB packages for OS X, so apparently dpkg and apt-get are available on OS X. Probably better off getting advice from someone who runs OS X though. :-) Best regards, Paul -- Universal Interoperability Council <http:www.universal-interop-council.org> _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
