Ouch.
Ouch. Fink is out-dated? Someone better tell the developers that. Fink works great... just because there is something newer, doesn?t mean the older is obsolete. Just different. Fink at least is tried and true (and excuse me for not jumping to the cool new kid on the block when what is installed still works).
And you're right, a lot of OSS stuff is included with OS X, but it's updated at Apple's pace which is pretty darn slow. I mean, subversion as provided by Apple is 1.6.5; what I have with Fink is 1.6.12. Apple gives me python 2.6.1; Fink gives me python 2.6.5. Want me to go on?
I mean, you're entitled to your opinion and chosen tools, after all. Running Linux in a vm is good... I do that (I have one permanent vm running all the time), but a lot of the development stuff I do I want to be cross-platform, so limiting myself to a Linux vm doesn't help much there.
