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Re:What Linux laptops do you use for development? by Prrometheus on Thursday April 26, 2007 @09:37PM (#17262)
Do you have to pay for all your software, or is there good free software to use for a Mac?
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Re:What Linux laptops do you use for development? by jey on Thursday April 26, 2007 @09:46PM (#17266)
I use almost all free software. I do all of my work under the MacOS unix environment with vim, gcc, python, etc etc. You can use the MacPorts ( http://www.macports.org ) package manager to install and manage your usual unix utilities. (MacPorts is analogous to portage/emerge on Gentoo, apt-get on Debian, yum on RedHat/Fedora, and FreeBSD's ports). I also use Firefox for web and Adium X for IM.

The only thing I can recall paying for is Parallels, a virtualizer similar to VMWare, to run MS Windows under MacOS. I hardly ever use it.

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