The Fink Project
May. 8th, 2010 08:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneI think the site's header says it all:
"The Fink project wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X. We modify Unix software so that it compiles and runs on Mac OS X ("port" it) and make it available for download as a coherent distribution. Fink uses Debian tools like dpkg and apt-get to provide powerful binary package management. You can choose whether you want to download precompiled binary packages or build everything from source."
The thing that brought them to my attention was a recent review of open source office productivity apps that mentioned a database for Mac called Kexi that purports to be an Access-like DB for Macs.
http://www.finkproject.org/
http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/kexi
"The Fink project wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X. We modify Unix software so that it compiles and runs on Mac OS X ("port" it) and make it available for download as a coherent distribution. Fink uses Debian tools like dpkg and apt-get to provide powerful binary package management. You can choose whether you want to download precompiled binary packages or build everything from source."
The thing that brought them to my attention was a recent review of open source office productivity apps that mentioned a database for Mac called Kexi that purports to be an Access-like DB for Macs.
http://www.finkproject.org/
http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/kexi
