Good news on the open source OS X front: the Metapkg Alliance. The good people behind Fink, DarwinPorts, and Gentoo have agreed to cooperate (though not merge) in order to "increase quality, reduce duplication of effort, and thus deliver better results more quickly to the Mac OS X/Darwin user community." Can't argue with that. All-volunteer efforts fragment, implode, or stall out all too often -- this is good news. More info in their press release. Discuss