[Tfug] Alan Cox: "I've had enough"--what else is new?

Paul Scott waterhorse at ultrasw.com
Mon Aug 3 09:55:07 MST 2009


Glen Pfeiffer wrote:
> Glen Pfeiffer wrote:
>   
>> And what GUI do you run? Is it free? Is it Open Source? Are 
>> there  other GUI options?
>>     
>
> On Sun Aug 02, 2009 at 10:22:02PM -0700, Bowie J. Poag wrote:
>   
>> Darwin is free. Much of OS X is free. There are portions of OS 
>> X,  however, which are not. That's the part you're paying for 
>> when you buy  OS X off the shelf.
>>     
>
> Thanks for the info. Are there other GUI options? Will xorg 
> compile on it?
>
>   
It's called XDarwin.  There are packages for many things.  Fink provides 
a package system based on apt-get for which there are many packages.

By installing the development system you can compile almost anything.

Paul Scott







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