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In computing, the Fink project is an effort to port popular Unix programs to Mac OS X. Fink uses the Debian package management system, apt, as well as its own frontend program, fink (which is implemented as a set of Perl modules). It is maintained by a large community of contributors who donate much of their time to package management and the project's further development.
[1] (http://fink.sourceforge.net/people.php?phpLang=en) FinkCommander puts a GUI frontend on Fink. Fink is widely recommended as the simplest way for users to install and maintain their favourite unix programs on Mac OS X. It features both a binary distribution for quick and easy installation, as well as a source distribution for user prefering more flexibility.
The name "Fink" is German for finch bird, and is related to OS X, aka Darwin OS, through Charles Darwin's study of diversity among finches. The Fink project was started in December, 2000 by a German hacker Christoph Pfisterer [2] (http://chrisp.de) who goes by the handle "chrisp." He left the project in November 2001 "after learning about the unthankfulness of people the hard way."[3] (http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=243622)
External links
- Fink project homepage (http://fink.sourceforge.net)
- Fink IRC channel (irc://irc.freenode.net/fink) on Freenode