yep. however, there are some things I use in Linux that aren't in Macports. One of them is ORCA (the Linux X desktop screen reader). Without that, I can't use X desktop items in OS X. Most of the base level (command line tools) are there, so no problem on that front.

-eric


On Jul 11, 2015, at 10:10 PM, Stephen Partington wrote:

> While applications need a bit of love to work on OSX, the fun thing about open source software you can do just that. The simplest waY to get started I think is mac ports.
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> https://www.macports.org/
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> On Saturday, July 11, 2015, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here is a good question. WHy doesn't their software work on Linux/GNU? They are the same (almost).
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