While browsing around the Terminal on the Macbook, I "discovered" that the Mac OSX has pre-installed:
perl
Ruby
python,
Apache,
X11
stuff I thought you could only find in Unix boxes, and Linux, I knew the engine underneath was Unix, but I thought it might have been sanitized so average users would not hurt themselves or their systems. One thing that is missing is a C complier that allows you to compile open source software, but that can easily be downloaded from the Apple Developers Connection. You need to register first, and I am not sure if you need to pay or it is free.
You don't need to register or anything, all you need is to install the "Additional" software on the CD, mainly the "Xcode" package. It has all the c compilers etc to compile free applications. Also, downloads from the ADC are all free! (They're all GNU software).
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