[Gllug] OT: Mac OS X for a linux user

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On Wed, 06 Sep 2006, Matthew Joseph Smith murmured woefully:
> There is a system called Fink which lets you download and install X11
> apps although the versions are not always up to date (for example,
> there are no KDE binaries for Tiger, although the sources for 3.5.4
> are in the "unstable" repository).  The KDE project are to migrate KDE
> 4 to use the Carbon version of Qt but version 4 is a few months away.
> Other major apps are available for OS X - Thunderbird, which I use, is
> very capable, but Firefox is buggy (it has a tendency to spontaneously
> load pages while you're in the middle of filling in a web form, such
> as a blog entry page).  There is another Mozilla browser called
> Camino, which is much better (this is my normal browser).

Plus of course there's Safari, which uses a fork of the same rendering
engine as does Konqueror.

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 still not really what one wanted.' --- jdev
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