[X-Newbies]

[J]

Many 'newbie' questions go unanswered because they are likely not  
very interesting.

This subject is way off topic for this list and belongs on the  
developers list.

On Nov 4, 2006, at 12:47 PM, Leah Aronoff wrote:

> Boy!  None of this sounds like Newbies talk to me.  It is  
> incomprehensible to me.  I'm a real basic Newbie, who worries about  
> things like how external drives work as backups, and which is best  
> to use, and how much do they cost, and stuff like that. . . . Leah
>
> On Nov 4, 2006, at 2:00 AM, Philip J Robar wrote:
>
>>
>> On Nov 3, 2006, at 10:07 PM, Jeff Allison wrote:
>>
>>> On 04/11/2006, at 4:55 , Philip J Robar wrote:
>>>
>>>> I also recommend MacPorts, but want to make clear that it's not  
>>>> just "another package system like Fink". Fink installs a GNU/ 
>>>> SYSV like UNIX environment that interposes itself over OS X's  
>>>> UNIX environment (I, myself, would say gets in the way of.),  
>>>> whereas MacPorts directly leverages OS X's UNIX environment.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure where you get that idea from what I can see fink  
>>> goes out of its way to avoid messing with OSX, the whole thing  
>>> lives is /sw
>>
>> MacPorts is a collection of UNIX/POSIX software ported to OS X. It  
>> uses and leverages OS X's UNIX. Fink installs an entire GNU  
>> environment: libraries, headers, and utilities. To use Fink  
>> effectively you have to put /sw at the front of your path, thus  
>> Fink requires you to interpose it on top of, or in my view, in  
>> place of OS X's native UNIX facilities.
>>
>> Phil
>>
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