Top 10 open source apps for Mac OS X

Every Mac user should consider making these applications and utilities part of their standard toolkit

  • 1

    AppleJack

    One of the simplest ways to fix a sluggish Mac

  • 2

    Boxee, Plex, XBMC

    If you attach your TV to a Mac with some decent

  • 3

    Fink

    The

  • 4

    Firefox

    Add-ons make Firefox not simply an open source

  • 5

    GIMP and Seashore

    Like Firefox, much of the value of the GIMP ima

  • 6

    jEdit

    jEdit is li

  • 7

    OpenOffice.org

  • 8

    RSSOwl

  • 9

    Thunderbird

    As with Firefox, there's a wide range of plug-i

  • 10

    VLC

    The Swiss Army Knife for video, VLC diplays alm

AppleJack

One of the simplest ways to fix a sluggish Mac is to run AppleJack, an open source tool that triggers many of the standard housekeeping scripts such as disk repair, cache cleanup, and permission fixes. For more details on each app, read our full story.

This story, "Top 10 open source apps for Mac OS X," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Follow the latest developments in open source, the Mac, and Mac OS X at InfoWorld.com.

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October 13, 2009

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