Open Source packages

There are two projects which provide ports from open source packages to mac os x :

• The fink project - wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X.
• The DarwinPorts Project's - their main goal is to provide an easy way to install various open-source software products on a Darwin, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, or Linux system.
  • Darwin ports guide

Which of those is best / most used is not clear to me at this moment.

• For most of these ports you will need to have X11 for mac osx installed.

Antivirus

• clamXav - the opensource / free virus scanner ported to max os X

Browser plugins

• Flash install
• shockwave
• other firefox plugins

Video

• vlc - plays everything

Articles

• Passive scanning of wireless networks with KisMAC
• installing postgres on OSX
  • don't forget to modify postgresql.conf to set socket=true
  • start postgres: /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -l logfile start
  • To dump a database: $ pg_dump mydb > db.out
  • To reload this database: $ psql -d database -f db.out
  • To dump a database called mydb that contains large objects to a tar file: $ pg_dump -Ft -b mydb > db.tar
  • To reload this database (with large objects) to an existing database called newdb: $ pg_restore -d newdb db.tar

• php on mac os x

Various

• Magical Mac key sequences
• Mac os x single user bootup - security

Comments

adding an extra column is not a bad idea but might become too bulky. Check the link above the table in WinLinuxWin to see what i mean

-- SiteAdmin? - 21 Dec 2004

• • Also I'm thinking you might like to add another column to the WinLinuxWin page for OS X...