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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. What broken link? by timothy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I admit, I'm a little bleary eyed at the moment, but I don't see any broken links here ...

    Every link in the story seems to have its requisite http:// at the front ...

    Can someone tell me which link isn't working?

    Tim

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  2. self-reply: fixed by timothy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    For the curious: the link before fink was missing a slash. (http:/ rather than http://)

    Anyone who was seeing this as broken, I wonder which browser(s) this choked ... (Konqueror? IE? Safari?)

    Mozilla worked fine.

    timothy

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  3. Re:Apple Scores again by Niksie3 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, all developers in this world should hail the great leader rxed the 634882th because he obviously knows more than we all do! Have you ever written a single line of code yourself?

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  4. Debian, Mandrake, Redhat, Gentoo, join forces by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Take the defactoness of rpm
    Take the power of apt-get
    Mix with the strength of emerge.
    And take the ease of use of Mandrake.

    To make a
    One unified linux, with one libc, one X (X 4.4), one desktop environment (KDE 3.2) and one text editor (nano, because ^X is better than :wq).

    The true united linux, ready to take on the real enemeys (SCO, Microsoft).

    The chances of this happening are 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0........001%, but we can always dream.

    1. Re:Debian, Mandrake, Redhat, Gentoo, join forces by sengork · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      By the time that happens (if ever) Windows will advance so much that the whole *nix community will be left in the dust when it comes to one single unified product.

  5. Hmmmmmm. by timothy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030319 Debian/1.3-3 here ... I wonder if it's something that's changed between our versions of Mozilla, or (my guess) a Windows vs. Linux thing.

    Thanks for the info.

    timothy

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    jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
  6. Steve Jobs' Resume Online by ElectricPoppy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Reality Distortion Field Enabled

  7. Great, because OSX = least included software ever by squashed · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Months ago, my father -- a teacher -- received a OSX laptop from his school district, which had bundled OS9 Office, but nothing else, really. I borrowed it for a week and, finding OS 9 "emulation" ridiculous, played around with the included OSX natives software.

    Excuse me, what bundled software? This was pre-Safari, so even the web browser sucked. It has to have the least included software ever. Not even a decent text editor, bare bones word processor, or M$ Works clone! By comparison, IBM's OS/2 came fully featured.

    Running X applications seemed tedious, alongside a native Linux system, and took no advantage of OSX's distinctive user interface (which, frankly, seems stultifying).

    So, without buying hundreds of dollars of "professional" M$ software, or just turning the Mac into an X computer, I find it not very compelling.