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Re:The REAL reason we use Linux by ashu on Saturday March 15, 2008 @08:29PM (#137808)
Couldn't have said this better myself. I have just started working on a Mac and I love the looks, but Linux is still more flexible and powerful than a Mac. apt-get is too hard to beat. Hopefully, in the near term when compiz matures well, we will get beautiful looking software on Linux also. (It's hard to beat Apple with the beauty of its hardware.)
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Re:The REAL reason we use Linux by ichverstehe on Saturday March 15, 2008 @08:35PM (#137811)
Welcome to the amazing world of OS X. Try MacPorts. Beats the hell out of Fink.

I am still using Debian on my second computer and on my servers, though.

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Re:The REAL reason we use Linux by ashu on Saturday March 15, 2008 @09:41PM (#137851)
Hm. I tried it out, but it looks like it does not install binaries directly? I am not much of a fan of the gentoo-esque compiling; mostly because it does not help me "get things done" quickly. I am waiting forever for the ports to compile now.

Edit: and now it has failed saying some checksum mismatch for a dependency. That's what I miss about apt-get: in my two years of experience with it, it has never - not once - failed. How does one beat that?

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Re:The REAL reason we use Linux by ichverstehe on Saturday March 15, 2008 @10:44PM (#137899)
MacPorts is more inspired of BSD-style ports than Gentoo, I think. Had problems with both, though.
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