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This article is from the MachTen & CodeBuilder FAQ, by Jaime Julca jjulca@tenon.com with numerous contributions by others.

20 Does the "xxx" software package run on top of MachTen?

Most UNIX software packages can be ported to MachTen in a straightforward
way. MachTen is a "vanilla" Berkeley system, with standard BSD libraries. To
run MachTen on systems with small amounts of memory and without UNIX virtual
memory, it is sometimes necessary to avoid large automatic variables by
using malloc/free.

Hundreds of public domain applications have been ported to MachTen. For a
list see http://www.tenon.com/products/machten/machten.apps.shtml.

 

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