Fink allows you to find, download and install Unix and Linux software.
(To be useful though you will want to get the Fink Commander GUI to go
along with it. Fink by itself is a command line program that you have
to know the commands to use. Fink commander takes care of that.
i have used it quite a bit in the past and really liked it, but lately
i am wondering now how much longer it will be useful because of a
couple of reasons.
1) Many projects are out there that are being ported over to use Aqua
and to have a Mac installer. Film-Gimp for example is slated for
release as an OS-X package in June. Right now you can use X11 to run
it. But in June (assuming they get it finished on time), that won't be
necessary.
2) Fink sets up a folder called /sw and installs software from there.
This was good before X11 came out. You could keep the strictly OS-X
things separated from the Linux and Unix stuff. But with X11, the
distinction is blurry and getting blurrier.
Where Fink is still needed today: Finding softwares, downloading them
and installing them. If you don't know where to look, then it will find
it for you!
Jerry
On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 05:01 PM, Dan Crutcher wrote:
> I also downloaded Fink (0.5.1) while I was surfing around these
> X11-related web sites, but I haven't installed it yet because I don't
> really know what it does. Is it useful and what does it do?
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> Dan
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