Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 15:22:56 -0700 From: Paul Beard <paulbeard@mac.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a Mac G3? Message-ID: <1541670.1065824576449.JavaMail.paulbeard@mac.com>
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On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 09:09AM, Mykroft Holmes IV <mykroft@explosive.mail.net> wrote: >While there is a Ports system for Darwin/OS X, called GNUDarwin, avoid >it, as it is notorious for breaking the basic OS install without asking. or you can use the DarwinPorts collection, which has Apple support behind it (longtime FreeBSD users will recognize Jordan Hubbard is: he's on the DarwinPorts team). >Fink is a better alternative, it's pretty much a port of the Debian >package management system, with somewhat improved source handling. As it >dumps all downloaded software in /sw, it doesn't break the base install. >Very nifty. Works very well. I used Fink for quite a while but it seemed to lose focus on reliability. I moved to darwinports (which offers source code ports and packages) and it seems to work just fine. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ <http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/>;
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