Thursday 17 May 2007

Install Linux apps on your Mac








The Simplehelp weblog has a great step-by-step tutorial for running Linux apps on your Mac using the free, open source programs Fink and FinkCommander.

It's a many-step process, but guide is very detailed, so it's a pretty easy set up. Once you've finished, you can install and run any of a number of great Linux apps (actually, it's technically UNIX apps that run on Linux). The guide gets an extra gold star for the Quicksilver addendum at the end describing how to add the new apps to your Quicksilver catalog. You're not going to be able to run any Linux app under the sun with Fink,

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