The Open Source Community is a broad church, gaining strength from its diversity. Whilst many of us use Linux on at least one of our machines, there's a (growing) number of educators who favour Macs. The operating system upon which Macs run (OSX) is based on Unix, a system to which Linux is closely allied.

Open Source Software (OSS) for Macs is an oft-neglected topic so hopefully the recommendations below will serve to go some way to redress that imbalance!