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It was only a matter of time

I knew that it was only a matter of time before Linux apps will be available for OSX. KDE now runs on top of OSX! Here's the entire release notice from Sourceforge:

The Fink team is happy to announce preliminary support for KDE on MacOS X.

To find out more about the K Desktop Environment, see "What is KDE?" at the KDE web site.

Work has been progressing steadily on getting KDE 3.0.x ported to run in XFree86 on MacOS X. Packages and pre-built binaries are now available for users interested in running KDE on MacOS X via Fink, at:

http://fink.sourceforge.net/

For detailed instructions on installing or building KDE on Fink, and screenshots of KDE running on OSX, see the full announcement at:

http://fink.sourceforge.net/news/kde.php

I had never heard of the Fink project before. Does OSX come with an X server included for KDE to run on, or does this port of KDE include an OSX port of XFree86? Ok, it looks like OSX does come with XFree86 under "Applications -> XDarwin", but you need the Fink version of XFree86 to run this port of KDE -- "These packages will only work with the xfree86-base from the Fink distribution, version 4.2.0-5 or higher."

Finally, a warning:

While a number of us on the Fink team have been running KDE on MacOS X for a couple of weeks now, this is still very definitely a work-in-progress. There are no guarantees that it won't delete your hard drive, kill your dog, put water in your gas tank, or make parts of your body randomly explode. While we've tried to make sure things are at least in a usable state, your mileage may vary, doubly so if you're using the pre-built binaries. If you are not comfortable with working with beta software, or working in the unstable distribution of Fink, you are better off waiting for KDE to move into the stable tree. In other words, don't say we didn't warn you! =)

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