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bubba
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 Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 2:58 pm Post subject: Linux alternative - Fink for OS X |
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| If installing Linux isn't your cup of tea, you can still have some of your commonly found Linux applications on your OS X machine. Take a look at Fink - http://fink.sourceforge.net |
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geegee
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| Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 8:58 pm Post subject: |
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Thank's for the link. Are most of the applications stable?
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But Fink is not your ONLY option. From what I've read so far, I'd recommend Gentoo for OS X and/or the DarwinPorts project.
Being a long-time Gentoo user, having portage for OS X sounds pretty much like heaven. But the DarwinPorts project seems to have quite a few ports available (over 2000 at last count).
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James T. Kirk©
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| Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 11:40 am Post subject: Re: Linux alternative - Fink for OS X |
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| bubba wrote: | | If installing Linux isn't your cup of tea, you can still have some of your commonly found Linux applications on your OS X machine. Take a look at Fink - http://fink.sourceforge.net |
I'm using Linux right now (don't own a mini yet) and I wonder how these programs function: like an emulator as VPC and such, or does Fink/DarwinPorts MAKE an OSX program when installing a Linux program? There are a couple of programs in Linux which work nice and could nicely be ported to OSX I think.
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iMav
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| Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 11:49 am Post subject: Re: Linux alternative - Fink for OS X |
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| James T. Kirk© wrote: | | I'm using Linux right now (don't own a mini yet) and I wonder how these programs function: like an emulator as VPC and such, or does Fink/DarwinPorts MAKE an OSX program when installing a Linux program? There are a couple of programs in Linux which work nice and could nicely be ported to OSX I think. |
Well to be fair, they are not "Linux programs", but open source projects that, typically, run on a variety of UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems.
Both Gentoo on Linux and DarwinPorts provide a way to automatically download the source and compile new binaries on the Mac. Fink, I believe, is a binary package management system (software is pre-compiled for the Mac).
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James T. Kirk©
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| Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 12:36 pm Post subject: Re: Linux alternative - Fink for OS X |
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| mavherzog wrote: |
Well to be fair, they are not "Linux programs", but open source projects that, typically, run on a variety of UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems.
Both Gentoo on Linux and DarwinPorts provide a way to automatically download the source and compile new binaries on the Mac. Fink, I believe, is a binary package management system (software is pre-compiled for the Mac). |
OK, I think I understand (a little), not for nothing I use an 'easier' linux! 
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