[thechat] Gotta new Mac - now what?

Martin Burns martin at easyweb.co.uk
Fri Dec 5 13:45:26 CST 2003


On 5 Dec 2003, at 17:00, Chris Evans wrote:

> However, I have no idea how to use it or what to do with it, where to 
> get good software, how to dig into the BSD stuff ( I deal with Linux 
> quite a bit), or really anything else.

1) Install the OSX developers' tools (so you get gccc)
2) Install Fink: http://fink.sourceforge.net/
3) Launch the Terminal and type 'fink list'

Oh yeah
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/ is kinda handy
http://www.macdevcenter.com/
are kinda useful


Cheers
Martin
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