The Macintosh operating system - the MacOS X version is based on an OpenSource Unix (FreeBSD on top of a Mach microkernel if you're a geek ), which makes it a good server for TWiki sites. Earlier versions (up to MacOS 9.x) are non-Unix based but can run Perl.

Click here to see topics mentioning MacOS, across all webs, and see Support.MacOSX for some specific issues with TWiki on MacOS X.

TWiki on MacOS links

• TWikiOnMacOSX for general installation hints
• SherlockAndMozillaSearching - TWiki support for Sherlock, the Macintosh search tool
• MacIESidebar for installation of a TWiki sidebar on InternetExplorer for Macs
• SafariBrowserIssues lists issues with the SafariBrowser on MacOSX
• IeMacBrowserIssues lists issues with InternetExplorer for MacOS X

-- RichardDonkin - 30 Jun 2002
-- LynnwoodBrown - 18 Jul 2002
-- AndreUlrich - 02 Oct 2005

Using MacOS built-in spellcheck in TWiki

While researching options for spellchecking within TWiki text boxes, I discovered that MacOS has this capability already built in! When you're editing a topic, simply control-click anywhere in the test box and then select the "Spelling" submenu. There's even an option to "check spelling as you type" which underlines suspect words as you type! Very cool!.

-- LynnwoodBrown - 29 Oct 2004

Some interesting issues with the way MacOS does Unicode filenames, found a while ago - see MacOSXFilesystemEncodingWithI18N. This could affect TWiki sites using I18N where MacOS is used as client or server.

-- RichardDonkin - 01 Oct 2006