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developerWorks: An Embedded View of the Mac Mini, Part 4

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 2, 2005

“As a proof-of-concept, in the last installment of this series,
I built a fairly simple prototype of a photo booth application
using Apple’s AppleScript language to do the glue work. Part 4
looks at ways to take advantage of the large pool of open source
software available for the Mac — the most obvious of which is the
Fink package management system.

“Fink is related in style to the ports and packages systems used
with the BSDs, but is designed somewhat differently…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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