How to install ported Linux software on a Mac? (MacPorts, Fink, anything better?)
- by Ben Alpert
On my Mac OS X machine, how would you recommend I install various software that's been ported from Linux? I don't install such software very frequently, but I've been using MacPorts and it always seems quite slow, presumably because it has to compile the packages on-the-fly.
I'd much prefer a package management system that has binary packages,…