Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 1st Jun 2006 21:33 UTC
The popularity of Apple Computer's iPod digital music players is helping it sell more Macs, but so far it hasn't been enough to spark a rise in the company's share of the personal computer market. According to research firm Gartner, worldwide PC shipments totaled 57 million units in the first quarter of 2006, representing a 13.1 percent increase over the same period last year. But in that time, Apple's share of the worldwide market slipped from 2.2 percent to a mere 2.0 percent. 
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2006-05-14
I've never used fink. But it seems like Bootcamp, if that's where you're going, why not just go there directly? Or is this unfair - is fink a bit like apt-get, a sort of automated package manager for OSX?
Fink is apt-get, ported to OS X, with a decent amount of the packages ported over. It doesn't quite have the same packages (many of which require porting before they will compile correctly, so they may be a bit behind or a few less choices) but it is doing well enough with I would say all of the popular packages supported and most of the others that I am aware of.
Better then fink in my opinion is DarwinPorts. It's basically a port of FreeBSD's port tree for OS X/Darwin. It works great, and compiles well. There is also a third option with pkgsrc ported from NetBSD, but this is a little more difficult to setup because you have to run the pkgsrc environment from a case-sensitive drive (either a UFS partition, easy to make in OS X with disk utility, or a UFS disk image, which you would have to mount every time you start OS X).