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DarwinPorts Project Crosses 1000 Ports Mark

Posted by pudge on from the that-be-a-heap-load-of-ports dept.

Soroths writes "The DarwinPorts project just achieved a new milestone at crossing the 1000 ports mark in its quest to bring the world of Open Source Software to the Mac OS X platform. Let's give them support and check the main site for more information about the entire project, including how to join!"

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  1. About time. by revolvement · · Score: 1, Funny

    I for one welcome our OSS porting overlords

  2. They Cheated! by arglesnaf · · Score: 5, Funny

    The last 14 ports were all versions of "Hello World!" in various scripting languages...

  3. Soo..... by bfg9000 · · Score: 2, Funny

    So who's gonna port some Mac software to Linux?

    --

    I'm not normally an irrational zealous dickhead, but I figure "When in Rome..."

  4. Looks like DarwinPorts needs to switch db's by jocknerd · · Score: 2, Funny

    Warning: mysql_pconnect(): Too many connections in /Library/WebServer/Documents/projects/darwinports/ includes/functions.inc on line 12
    Can't connect to db!

    How about PostgreSQL guys?