Linux laptops, revisited (can any sleep like my PowerBook does?)
Michael L Torrie
torriem at chem.byu.edu
Sat Jan 19 15:10:52 MST 2008
Jonathan Ellis wrote:
> On 1/19/08, Alex Esplin <alex.esplin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Your second argument kind of trumps your first one. Thanks to the
>> efforts of fink and/or macports, almost every packaged available for
>> linux is available for OSX.
>
> Have you actually used both fink and, say, aptitude recently?
>
> Fink sucks. It's a lifesaver, but it sucks.
Yeah. MacPorts is much much better, from what I hear. Fink has always
been a nasty hack, and nothing was ever in stable that I needed.
>
> -Jonathan
>
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