Quoting steve ulrich (sulrich at botwerks.org):
> os x provides all of the above.  hell they ship with fetchmail and
> procmail available by *default*.  the terminal leaves a little to be
> desired and pretty much anything that you need to build from a unix
> perspective is available.  

Available yes, but have you actually tried to compile anything for it? The 2
open source projects I work on spend mondo-time trying to get an OSX port. Both
are pretty xlib intensive. 

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