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Interview with Jordan Hubbard About DarwinPorts

Posted by pudge on from the here-a-port-there-a-port-everywhere-a-port-port dept.

Gentu writes "OSNews hosts an interview with Jordan Hubbard (of Apple, OpenDarwin, and FreeBSD fame) where they discuss DarwinPorts and how they compare to Fink. There is also a hint from Jordan that there might be some of the FreeBSD 5.x advancements to be found in Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) that is coming out, reportedly, this autumn."

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  1. Re:Love FreeBSD by bmetzler · · Score: 5, Informative
    Powerpc processors are crippled compared to athlons or pIV's and yet apple charges a premium for them.

    I guess I haven't noticed the premiums that Apple charges for notebooks. I'm looking to purchase a notebook, and am trying to decide if I shuld go iBook or not. Everyone tells me that Apple is more expensive, but for their notebooks I don't see that. Similarily configured notebooks from Apple, as far as I can tell are ~$300 LESS then notebooks from Dell or Compaq.

    -Brent