OS X 10.1.2                          Debian 2.2
               ____________                       ____________

Kernel        Darwin 1.4.1                       Linux 2.2.19

Runs on       Macs, but Darwin                   x86, Alpha, ARM,
               runs on x86                        680x0, PowerPC, SPARC

Open Source   Kernel Yes,                        Yes
               GUI No

License       Darwin comes under                 GPL
               the Apple Public Source
               License

Price         $129.00 at                         Free via FTP,
               Apple Store;                       CDs vary in price
               Darwin is free:
               http://publicsource.apple.com/projects/darwin/

X Windows     Separate download; 	             Included
               See the XonX project:
               http://sourceforge.net/projects/xonx/

The GIMP      Separate download;                 Included
               http://www.macgimp.org/

GNOME         Separate download;                 Included
               http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/section.php/gnome

KDE           No                                 Separate download;
                                                  http://www.kde.org/

Package       FINK, separate                     apt-get
Manager       download, based on
               apt-get;
               http://fink.sourceforge.net/

Shells        tcsh is default;                   bash (default) and many others
               bash and others                    included
               available separately;
               http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/section.php/shells

Editors       Emacs, vi, TextEdit                Emacs, XEmacs, vi, pico,
               included; Others                   joe, vim, AbiWord, etc.
               available separately;              included
               http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/section.php/editors

ssh, sshd     Included                           Included

Email apps    Mail.app (GUI app);                pine, mutt included
               pine, mutt available
               separately;
               http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/section.php/net

Browser       MSIE included;                     Netscape, lynx included
               Mozilla, Netscape, OmniWeb,
               Opera, iCab, lynx separate
               downloads

MySQL,        Separate download;                 Included
PostgreSQL    http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/

Apache        Included                           Included

SendMail      Included                           Included

BIND          Included                           Included

FTP server    Included                           Included

Samba         Included                           Included

Perl          Included                           Included

Python        Separate download                  Included

cvs           Included                           Included

Compiler      cc                                 gcc

App Framework Cocoa                              GNUstep

Wireless      Included                           Separate download
80211.b                                          (iwconfig etc. not found
support                                          in Debian on-line 
packages list)

Wine          No                                 Included