Mac OS X Question

[Gerald Combs]

On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Seth Dimbert wrote:

> I'm considering a new Mac purchase. When I do buy it, it will run OS 10.2
> and, as I understand, this is a BSD Unix distro. My question: Does this mean
> that any app that runs in Linux will run on a Mac running OS X?

Most apps that compile under Linux/Unix wil run under OS X, AFAIK.  The
Fink project (http://fink.sourceforge.net) has a pile of apps that have
been ported over, in easily-installed packages.