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To clarify, Mac ships with a native Unix [1], derived from BSD, not a posix subsystem. It has its own init (launchd) and its own GUI, but most of it is a Unix.

Using Macports or homebrew gets you most of the packages that are available for the various Linuxes, GNU utilities etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_%28operating_system%29



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