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<blockquote data-quote="mac57" data-source="post: 302594" data-attributes="member: 17052"><p>I completely agree. That was my analysis as well. Mac OS X is the best of both worlds. All of the great open source stuff you know and love plus all that full fledged commercial support PLUS a beautiful and intuitive user interface.</p><p></p><p>Let me mention one more thing, in case you are not aware. There is a software package called DarwinPorts that lets you build and run pretty much all of your Linux open source software on the Mac, right down to massive things like KDE (although if you are wanting to run THAT much Linux on your Mac, perhaps you should just be running Linux!). DarwinPorts is a seamless build environment that implements a complete and cohesive equivalent of a Linux distribution, even including full dependency management. See <a href="http://darwinports.opendarwin.org" target="_blank">http://darwinports.opendarwin.org</a>.</p><p></p><p>I used DarwinPorts to build and install all sorts of great stuff, like gnumeric, abiword (although there is a Mac native version of this), xv, feh, xfe, gftp, mc... it is great, I love it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mac57, post: 302594, member: 17052"] I completely agree. That was my analysis as well. Mac OS X is the best of both worlds. All of the great open source stuff you know and love plus all that full fledged commercial support PLUS a beautiful and intuitive user interface. Let me mention one more thing, in case you are not aware. There is a software package called DarwinPorts that lets you build and run pretty much all of your Linux open source software on the Mac, right down to massive things like KDE (although if you are wanting to run THAT much Linux on your Mac, perhaps you should just be running Linux!). DarwinPorts is a seamless build environment that implements a complete and cohesive equivalent of a Linux distribution, even including full dependency management. See [url]http://darwinports.opendarwin.org[/url]. I used DarwinPorts to build and install all sorts of great stuff, like gnumeric, abiword (although there is a Mac native version of this), xv, feh, xfe, gftp, mc... it is great, I love it. [/QUOTE]
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