[KLUG Members] Question On Linux Friendly laptop

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> Look into "Fink".  I tried it when it was new and didn't keep it.  Not 
> that I gave it much of a chance to grow.  I just didn't need what it did 
> at the time.

Right, I know what Fink is;  it is the X11 overlay,  the guy two
cubicles over runs stuff (including OOo) in Fink.  But it doesn't seem
to look/feel terribly native.

> I did a search on the Fink site and Evolution comes up, but I don't know 
> how well it will work.
> Also, and I have only heard of this and how it works, there is Gentoo 
> Portage.
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/macos-guide.xml
> Supposedly you can use this to install (or build from source) most linux 
> apps to run on Mac OSX.  I am not versed in this at all, and what I know 
> about is infinitesimal.  But it is probably worth looking into.

Anyone know if this provides any kind of package management (heck, I
have RPM on AIX these days) or does it just
suck-down/configure/make/make_install into some directory?
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