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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. 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.