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Gentoo, Fink, and DarwinPorts Join Forces

Posted by michael on from the darfinkgen dept.

Mr. Quick writes "From Metapkg, "In order to better provide freely-available software to users of Mac OS X and Darwin, we Fink, Gentoo, and DarwinPorts commit ourselves to work together." A unified front for free software on Mac OS X is something that was needed."

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  1. Name for the United Front? by TPIRman · · Score: 5, Funny

    What will this new collaboration be called?

    DarFinkGen?
    FinkTooWin?

    Firebird?

    1. Re:Name for the United Front? by mikeophile · · Score: 5, Funny

      MacJustice League Superfriends X?

    2. Re:Name for the United Front? by carpe_noctem · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'm partial to "Operation Enduring Package".

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