Before OS X I used slackware. At the time it did most of what I needed. I found the community around it lacking. When I found OS X open source folks they were

Before OS X I used slackware. At the time it did most of what I needed. I found the community around it lacking. When I found OS X open source folks they were beyond welcoming. This is one of the bigger reasons Growl was on os x and not Linux.