> Ponder #1. I wonder how many people with limited to some *nix > experience have installed scores of open source programs with fink? > Ponder #2. I wonder out of the people found in #1 how many could have > done it without fink? > Ponder#3. If "And... there is especially no use for the average MAC > -User and his/hers Terminal-Paranoia..." how many of them are going to > be able "do it yourself [themselves] properly"?
I now run a Debian router/webserver/email server/etc, but OSX and Darwin was my first experience with *nix outside of reading my email in pine in a telnet window. At the time, Fink had to be compiled on the command line, but it was the only thing besides XFree86 that I actually got to work when I tried to install it. If I hadn't had such a good experience with Fink, I wouldn't have gone on to think, "okay, this *nix stuff is really great, but I want one that stuff actually exists for," and installed Linux. My point is that I definately fit the first two ponders, and only fail the third by having had an inclination to learn such things already. But isn't even the most humble Mac user who uses Fink likely to have /some/ inclination to experience *nix? Besides, debian tools, or their ports to other systems, /are/ the proper way to install things (: -Cayenne ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
