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While I am no longer a complete newbie to Macs, I have just recently started getting into terminal (mostly because I have to use it for Engineering sometimes haha) and I am now curious. I have X11 installed along with Gimp but when I downloaded GIMP I downloaded a special Mac OS X version.
I was wondering if all UNIX based programs need a special Mac OS X version of them to be able to install the program or if I can just install UNIX (the correct version, of course) programs as they are. I was under the impression that the reason I downloaded a special version of Gimp was because maybe it took advantage of some OS X features, maybe. (Otherwise why bother using the X11 system and still make a Mac specific version of Gimp?)
I was wondering if all UNIX based programs need a special Mac OS X version of them to be able to install the program or if I can just install UNIX (the correct version, of course) programs as they are. I was under the impression that the reason I downloaded a special version of Gimp was because maybe it took advantage of some OS X features, maybe. (Otherwise why bother using the X11 system and still make a Mac specific version of Gimp?)