I was never a big fan of the Micro$oft corporation, and recent events have been pushing me further and further into out of the fourth layer fan base. Since the birth of Mac OS X, I have been quite interested in the system. Using a wonderful GUI along with the best command prompt, was just awesome. If it weren’t for the lack of software, games and upgradability, I probably would have switched to OS X a long time back. Specially after I used it for lon periods at work. The other work.

Recently, as some of you might know Apple has decided to move their system to the world of x86, which was interesting considering it was well after the bloom of x86-64. The ability to dual-boot into OS X and Windows definitely aids in the whole switching process. But that’s just the beginning for me.

Gentoo community announced the other day, that their wonderful Protage system will be available for Mac OS X. For those who haven’t tried, it is a very wonderful way of getting package sources and compiling it on your computer making it always opitmized for your system. However, the price tag on it is obviously time. Bigger packages means, longer installation time which is mostly defined by the compilation time.

However for smaller stuff, it’s just amazing. Just imagine how much time you save when you do emerge nmap instead of actually going out and hunting for the right package. It’s awesome!