Open source applications for Mac OS X

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Dec 2, 2006 5:38 AM EDT
NewsForge; By Alan Dipert
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The amount of free software available to Mac users is comparable to that available to users of other *nix variants, thanks to the BSD underpinnings of Apple's flagship operating system. Software package management projects like Fink and MacPorts (formerly DarwinPorts) make installing and running a wide variety of console, daemon, and X11 applications simple. But what about slick, free, open source applications using the native Mac APIs that look like they might have shipped with your Mac?

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