comes to significant differences like the startup process (no
init.d/rc.d), no real useradd and the alternative package managers Fink and DarwinPorts.
Personally, I had Not Much Luck with the open source stuff I've downloaded for Mac. The readme told me which directory to put it in, so I did. I tried to get fink to do something. I checked the readme and had got the path correct. The program (tiny little freeware thing) errored at me, told me I had got the path wrong, and just sat there looking blank.
I had a similar problem with another program I tried.
(this is so long ago I forget which)
Almost certainly, you lot would have known what Wisdom to Perform when the default in the readme file didn't work.
Unfortunately, I was fresh out of dead chickens, and ran away.
Regards, R
PS. Any actually coherent and sensible reason the reply-to seems to go to 'individual user' rather than 'chatty mailing list'? I never understand that...