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Interview with Fink's Project Leader
Gentu writes "There is a interesting interview over at OSNews with Fink's project leader, Max Horn. They discuss Fink's relationship with Apple, integration of their Unix/Linux ports to Mac OS X via Debian's packaging solution, ease of use on installation of the .deb packages, AltiVec optimizations and more."
Fink is working very closely together with the Opendarwin project. However each project hasi its inherent problems and advantages and many Mac os X user need or want open source software support. The Fink Project provides this kind of support. I would appreciate it, if you put more effort into gathering information before you go about shouting and yelling. If you still feel that we should put different kind of efforts into other projects or share more of our own work then you are free to dicsuss this with all of us on our fink-devel mailing list. You are very welcome to join.
And just so you can rest assured. I do not only have Macs at home, apart from Risc machines and some rather espteric hardware, i am also urring PC's with a vast variety of Operating systems.
Fink is the unix tool on OSX. Whenever you need a linux/unix library or a software that isn't available on X, you install it with dselect without any problems most of the time. You can still download the source and try to compile it but hey, fink does that.
Seriously though - Fink allows me to do this.