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            I was going to say it doesn't have the huge .RPM or .DEB repository behind it, but it turns out there is fink [], a port of Debian's DPKG+APT to Max OSX, with 5,196 packages in "Stable", including most of the usual suspects [].

            One can debate whether OSX is a better Unix than LinuxPPC [] or not, but a Unix that really does look like a Mac can't be a bad thing.

            If I didn't want to mess-around with the *nix [] somewhat, a mac-style laptop would have been a contender for me, now that they're real unix. Certainly there are a significant number of PM'ers who like Power Books. Since I'm almost as fond of the Power architecture as the Alpha, I could have started collecting G3 macs and a PowerBook instead of old Alphas for be-Debian-izing.

            # I had a sig when sigs were cool
            use Sig;