Fink for Mac

Fink for Mac - Edit Unix application to run on Mac

The Mac OS X face today has a significant contribution from BSD Unix, a long-standing open source operating system, which was owned by NeXT before NeXT bought Apple (although technically, Apple won it by itself. take NeXT, not vice versa).

BSD Unix has quite a few close brothers, like Sun's Solaris, or more distant brothers, like Linux.All of them are open source software.

With Fink, all of these operating systems will be available on Macs as they have been modified to enable gasoline to run on Mac OS X, along with an additional system of tools to support the installation process.

To support Fink, which is controlled by the command line, you can use the Fink Commander tool. Both will unlock all the great open source Unix software, to land on the Mac.

With Fink or Fink Commander, you can browse the list of latest application packages. You will find it very easy to walk around the open source software 'store'. Although the operation is not too complicated, but you may encounter a little trouble, if you run the program, when Fink will call 'hammer' the applications.

Fink currently has about 10,000 software packages, from programming software, games. Perl, Python, and Ruby are all present. Wireshark tool, very useful when network administrators are also available to assist you to download. Math, science software packages . are not missing.

If you're not afraid to use the command line to control it, Fink will truly become an all-powerful utility that will help you get to the Unix world right on your Mac.

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