Re: It's not that popular
? porting / Linux on OS/2 ?
AFAIK macports is pretty damn native and so is whatever it installs. it’s name refers to ‘ports’, the utility on BSD that is tasked with installling packages, again very natively.
there is _nothing_ Linux-y about it, except that a package, say postgres’s, source code will be mostly the same as what it uses on Linux. most of these things have no GUI/X-Windows component whatsoever, so not a consideration either.
this is like telling someone never to use apt-get, yum or rpm on Linux. sure, if apt-get or the installed package is pwned, so are you, but that’s to be expected.
used at this level and on the terminal, a Mac is pretty much just like a Linux distribution, including access to a vast array of server/programmer/utility packages. only GUI stuff changes, but really there isn't much of that either - your code editor and browser likely is the same as the one you'd use on Linux.