From: Craig on
I know nothing about this other than wuts sed in the blurb. Long &
short: lots of F/OSS apps now available for OSX vis a bsd-like ports system.

> The MacPorts Project is an open-source community initiative to design
> an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either
> command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X
> operating system. To that end we provide the command-line driven
> MacPorts software package under a BSD License, and through it easy
> access to thousands of ports that greatly simplify the task of
> compiling and installing open-source software on your Mac.
>
> We provide a single software tree that attempts to track the latest
> release of every software title (port) we distribute, without
> splitting them into �stable� Vs. �unstable� branches, targetting
> mainly the current Mac OS X release (10.6, A.K.A Snow Leopard) and
> the immediately previous one (10.5, A.K.A. Leopard). There are
> currently 7017 ports in our tree, distributed among 92 different
> categories, and more are being added on a regular basis.

<http://www.macports.org/>


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-Craig