[dmalloc]

[FONT="Georgia"]Dear Community[/FONT]

My name is dmalloc and I am the PR guy for Fink. Right now I am looking into better ways to interact with our community of loyal
users.

Podcast driven Interviews with "everyday" users of Fink interest me,
spreading the word why you choose to use Fink. What your thoughts on improvements are, how you first came to use Fink and why you (maybe) stopped using it.

I would like to make each and everyone of those interviews a personal
recollection of you and Fink, a nice, easy going chat that contemplates the future and reflects on the past.

How does it work?
If you are interested simply drop me an E-Mail at FinkPR

It helps when you include your name, your age, your profession and for
how many years you have been using a Mac, but that is not a necessity
at all.

Once I have picked the first round of those that I would like to
interview, I will contact you directly.

If you want to ensure that this is no a hoax, please review this web-site:
"http://finkproject.org/people.php?phpLang=en"
or
"http://wiki.opendarwin.org/index.php/Fink:FDN"

I am looking forward to your comments, ideas and of course your
criticism as well.

-d

[wataru]

I went through a phase where I just had to try every new version of KDE, which mean hours and hours of compiling with fink. I got sick of that for obvious reasons.

Then for a while I used fink to install nano and anacron on all my machines. But then I switched to SubEthaEdit's see utility for my text editing needs (better multilingual support) and Tiger kind of removed the need for anacron.

I still have a fink installation and I update it occasionally, but I don't really use any of the packages I have installed. This is especially true since graduating from college since I no longer need the science packages I used to use for homework.

[Dr.Michael]

I am a scientist and I use fink based commandline tools. Don't remember which came from fink, but I have installed many. A tex engine for example, wget...

Fink is a great tool, but I am sure your audiences are tech savy scientists and students. These groups use unix since ever and many of my collegues have a mac or want one and need the tools they are used to.
Not sure how many of them can be found here. Here its more about "help, my mac shows fingerprints".

Do you know http://www.macresearcher.com/ ?

My impression of Fink? If any tool is missing, I find it with fink. A cool resource.