I am weak. After four or five days fighting with getting Fink and X11 to work with my Powerbook, I broke down and installed VirtualPC. I hadn't tried to use the product since its very early days (like four or five years ago at least) and wasn't expecting much. I was stunned when I was able to install my Windows98SE OS from CD and it actually ran. Whether or not it will crash as frequently as Windows does I don't yet know. But this has saved me from the stress of getting Fink working RIGHT NOW when I just want to do some design and HTML work. Now I've got a stopgap - though I've promised myself to only run native OS X software in the long run. Part of it is a cost issue - isn't that always the case with a migration? I have tons of tools and legitimate software for use with Windows, and I'm not looking forward to spending a ton of money duplicating that tool set under Mac OS X. I'm pretty confident that I can get Fink working as soon as I have a new copy of the Developer Tools disk (arriving today I think) but in the mean time I'll just hack along using VirtualPC (and feeling guilty all the time).
Posted by artandscience at December 17, 2003 01:06 PM