Open Source

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• Computers: Software: Operating Systems: Open Source  (16)

Apple - Downloads - UNIX & Open Source - The UNIX and Open Source category of Mac OS X Downloads.

Calxalot Software - Open source freeware for Mac OS X.

The Fink Project - Unix software ported to Mac OS X, either as binaries, or from source.

FinkCommander - A graphical user interface for Fink. (only for Jaguar, as of version 0.5.0)

HandBrake - A GPL'd multi-platform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter. HandBrake was originally available on the BeOS, but now has been ported over to MacOS X and to GNU/Linux.

LAMP - An ambitious project to provide a POSIX environment on Mac OS.

The Mac GNU OS X Public Archive - Packages of all forms of Open Source Software including many Unix applications ported to or built for OS X.

Mac OS X Man Pages - Apple's collection of man pages available from the command line, but much easier to browse.

MacDevCenter - Mac development tutorials, opinion, and discussion from the O'Reilly Network.

MacPorts - Aims to provide an easy way to install various open-source software products on MacOS X.

ONLamp - O'Reilly's articles on LAMP: The Open Source Web Platform. Roughly defined as (but not limited to) MySQL used in conjunction with Linux, Apache, and either Perl, Python, or PHP.

Red Bird Island - Free software for the Mac of various genres.