From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 10 15:22:59 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4316016A4BF for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 15:22:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (A17-250-248-47.apple.com [17.250.248.47]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64C5F43FE0 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 15:22:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paulbeard@mac.com) Received: from webmail04.mac.com (webmail04-en1 [10.13.11.146]) by smtpout.mac.com (8.12.6/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id h9AMMugs009533 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 15:22:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from webmail04 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by webmail04.mac.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h9AMMulj009632 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 15:22:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1541670.1065824576449.JavaMail.paulbeard@mac.com> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 15:22:56 -0700 From: Paul Beard To: questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a Mac G3? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:22:59 -0000 On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 09:09AM, Mykroft Holmes IV 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 @