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Mac OS X includes a number of open source technologies. These include a number of command-line tools, various servers such as Apache, the X11 graphical environment, several widget toolkits like wxWidgets and Tcl/Tk, and a number of programming languages like Perl and PHP. Developers can leverage these technologies to improve their user experience, reduce development time, and develop and deploy powerful web-based, command-line, and graphical applications.


Getting Started A guided introduction and learning path for developers new to open source.	Fundamentals Essential information about open source technologies.	Frameworks API references organized by framework.



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Porting Porting information related to open source software development for Mac OS X.	Printing Open source printing technologies in Mac OS X.	Tools Open source developer tools, including GCC and GDB.