Re: [Fink-beginners] Curious why others are using X11 & Fink?

2005-02-05 Thread Stephen Fisher
I do all my finances with gnucash (versus Quicken who have become the M$ of finance software.) Use OpenOffice for the occasional presentation (vs. pay a fortune for M$ Office) Looking at Gramps for genealogy vs a no longer supported Mac shareware genealogy program I've used for years. Run on th

Re: [Fink-beginners] Curious why others are using X11 & Fink?

2005-02-05 Thread Brian O'Keefe
Thomas Ferreira wrote: Yup, found it, but in the unstable category so my list did not show it. So, from the terminal I did a "fink install sylpheed" and for about an hour it went through the install process but at the end, although I found tons of files that were just installed, I find nothing

Re: [Fink-beginners] Curious why others are using X11 & Fink?

2005-02-04 Thread Michèle Garoche
Le 5 févr. 2005, à 5:37, Bill Smith a écrit : On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 04:53:17 +0100 Michèle Garoche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am still looking for what email application is available and is in Fink already to use. The couple I have seen did not work on my system. What email app are you using? M

Re: [Fink-beginners] Curious why others are using X11 & Fink?

2005-02-04 Thread Bill Smith
On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 04:53:17 +0100 Michèle Garoche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am still looking for what email application is available and is > > in > > Fink already to use. The couple I have seen did not work on my > > system. What email app are you using? > Mail from OSX, I found the

Re: [Fink-beginners] Curious why others are using X11 & Fink?

2005-02-04 Thread Michèle Garoche
Le 4 févr. 2005, à 21:36, Thomas Ferreira a écrit : Other than tinkering with X11, are their certain applications that are only available for X11 that made you decide to install and use it? To learn the Unix side of Mac OS X. Are there others here who use the X11 system more than OS X itself? Ye

Re: [Fink-beginners] Curious why others are using X11 & Fink?

2005-02-04 Thread Emily Jackson
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 15:00:31 -0700 "Brian O'Keefe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thomas Ferreira wrote: > > > I am not seeing this Sylpheed in my Fink selections. Is this > > Finkable? > > > > Thomas > > > > On Feb 4, 2005, at 1:21 PM, Brian O'Keefe wrote: > > > >>> sylpheed > >> > > > It show

Re: [Fink-beginners] Curious why others are using X11 & Fink?

2005-02-04 Thread Brian O'Keefe
Thomas Ferreira wrote: I am not seeing this Sylpheed in my Fink selections. Is this Finkable? Thomas On Feb 4, 2005, at 1:21 PM, Brian O'Keefe wrote: sylpheed It shows up in mine (commander or "fink list" in terminal) as version 0.9.7-1 --- T

Re: [Fink-beginners] Curious why others are using X11 & Fink?

2005-02-04 Thread Adam McLeod
Hi Thomas, I am running X11 mostly because I came from Linux. I've been using Evolution on Linux for a few years for my email. When I got my Mac, I just copied over my Evolution directory, installed Evolution through Fink and it works just as it did on Linux. Saddly that is about the only softw

Re: [Fink-beginners] Curious why others are using X11 & Fink?

2005-02-04 Thread Brian O'Keefe
Thomas Ferreira wrote: Just curious why others here have installed X11 on their systems and are using Fink to install their packages. Other than tinkering with X11, are their certain applications that are only available for X11 that made you decide to install and use it? The reason I have grow

[Fink-beginners] Curious why others are using X11 & Fink?

2005-02-04 Thread Thomas Ferreira
Just curious why others here have installed X11 on their systems and are using Fink to install their packages. Other than tinkering with X11, are their certain applications that are only available for X11 that made you decide to install and use it? The reason I have grown interested in it is