Fink (PPC) for Mac

User Reviews

• Better

  AlienBenefactorSeptember 20, 2004

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I dumped my old sw directory and did a fresh install. Good thing I did because I recovered over two gigs of diskspace in the process (after all programs were reinstalled) Only installed the binary packages found in the stable archive. Works better. Feels cleaner. KDE and Gnome applications work well and all libraries and dependencies were resolved this time. Finkcommander makes installation of new packages easy. Was disappointed that XEphem was not included. Will most likely show up later.

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• excellent time-saver if you already know UNIX

  jwApril 5, 2004

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />If you want to use your Mac as a UNIX machine, this is a great time saver if you just want to get real work done and avoid some of the pitfalls of being your own sysadmin. Over the last year and a half, I've had excellent volunteer help and response to my issues and questions-- both individually from help queries to the fink web site, and from the Fink Beginners mail list. Fink has also been a great way to painlessly to upgrade over OS X releases and keep by custom UNIX environment. The "average" OS X user may never want to look at Fink, but should find comfort in the fact that it is there to provide painless access some very powerful public-domain UNIX applications. Even though fink takes the safest approach by installing almost everything (except X11) within a /sw dirctory, I would still advise doing a fully backup before trying-- and/or try out fink on a separate HD with a fresh OS X which does not contain your valuable information.

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• Less essential than it used to be, but still...

  soolooApril 4, 2004

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  ...essential.<br />This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Prior to 10.2 getting anything *nixy functioning on OSX was an adventure and a 'learning experience' (that's geekese for 'it's a PITA, but you get used to it'). But most stuff I've tried lately (pan, mutt, nedit to name a few) has built and installed with nary a hitch. Still, I wouldn't want to install KDE or Gnome without it. Not that I want to with it, either. That said, it's still my first stop when I'm looking for new toys to play with.

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• Tzunami...

  graffixNovember 17, 2003

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I'm glad you didn't follow my advice, since it was directed at the post previous to yours. :) You would've been on a wild goose chase... While I was typing up a response to the (at the time) previous poster you came in and added a comment, which made 'you' the previous poster when I posted. :D (You'll notice that my post was only 1 minute after yours). VT got rid of the 'delete' function for people to delete their own posts or I'd have reposted with a correction... but alas... Glad things are working for you though. And now for the review part... Fink rocks... I think that says it all. :P These guys do a fantastic job. 20-stars!

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• Fink is da bomb

  Frank NospamNovember 17, 2003

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />By far the easiest way to install Unix apps on your Mac. And if you want a GUI you can always add Fink Commander.

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• jspindelApril 15, 2003

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />The upgrade procedure listed on the web site has never worked for me, and this release is no exception.

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• NolendilApril 15, 2003

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Great stuff. I'm just stuck with the cvs versions of Fink since I used it once and don't know how to come back to stable

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• aaa eee ffApril 14, 2003

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />josh_carlson, Virex hast to fix this. The whole issue is that they use fink themself but they do it the wrong way. There is no

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• Maarten FoukharApril 14, 2003

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />sudo apt-get install everything_I_want-0.5.2 I like Debian Linux because it has a great installing system. I like Fink because it has almost the same system.

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• The MadManFebruary 28, 2003

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Wow, totally amazing for us mortals, who don't know s**t about finding a package on your own, not to mention how to compile it. Just

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