freeform goodness

While setting up the new workstation, I decided to go with DarwinPorts instead of Fink. I like Fink OK, but the fact that DarwinPorts is a spiritual descendent of the much adored FreeBSD ports system, as opposed to Fink’s Debian heritage, makes me curious. Having two different port systems installed on my two main machines may cause a few local impedance mismatches, but I think the experience will be valuable.

I like it quite a bit so far. It’s a younger project than Fink, so it’s not as polished in one sense (no friendly GUI or binary distribution), but it seems more lightweight and less fragile overall. There aren’t as many ported applications, but all the main ones I care about (e.g. tidy, nano, ethereal, etc.) are there.

:: Dave Walker 10:39 (EST/EDT) [+]

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