Run Linux applications on OS X.

[binoyxj]

Fink is a project that recompiles existing open source software and ports it on OS X and makes them available through a package manager called “Fink”, which is similar to Synaptic Package Manager for Ubuntu. Fink has a huge collection of some 2500+ packages.

Download - FINK.

Source:http://www.linuxhaxor.net/2008/12/18/installing-linux-applications-on-os-x-with-fink/

 

[Heeter]

Nice find,

Heeter

 

[SPeedY_B]

Not a huge fan of Fink, though many others are. I'm a fan of MacPorts : http://macports.org/

 

[X-Istence]

I prefer MacPorts as well. Never liked the whole apt-get system that Debian has ...

 

[Xie]

Yeah MacPorts is much better then Fink. They also have many GUI front-ends listed on the site if your into that sort of thing.

 

[SPeedY_B]

Never used a GUI with MacPorts, prefer to know exactly what's going on from a nice verbose command line.

 

[Xie]

Never used a GUI with MacPorts, prefer to know exactly what's going on from a nice verbose command line.

Ditto, was just putting it out there though since Fink had a GUI frontend in the pic above.

 

[Geffy]

Yeah MacPorts is pretty good though I tend to just fetch and compile the source myself now so I don't have multiple duplicated copies of things like perl.

Also while you can run Linux GUI apps on OS X they look like turd so I never bother.

 

[SPeedY_B]

Yeah MacPorts is pretty good though I tend to just fetch and compile the source myself now so I don't have multiple duplicated copies of things like perl.

Also while you can run Linux GUI apps on OS X they look like turd so I never bother.

GUI based apps look like wibbling piles of excrement, however there are quite a few handy CLI tools/apps out there. A selection of my "port installed" looks like so:

aria2
id3v2
irssi
mp3splt
unrar
wget

....plus a ridiculous amount of things which are installed as dependencies. Admittedly, not a huge list, but tools I use quite frequently, and it's always handy being able to "port install xxx" when I need something.

 

[X-Istence]

Eh, the duplicated copies of apps is just a small price to pay for the convenience, especially since I can blow away my /opt tree and start from scratch.