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Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.
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Great question, Don.
The end results are the same: you install an application, and the application runs on your computer.
The way they get there is the only difference. The way homebrew is bound to a specific install location can be mildly problematic for some sysadmins, and homebrew uses Ruby (I think?) for its install scripts, while MacPorts uses Makefiles.
As a user, you won't notice a difference. As a packager or sysadmin, you may prefer one over the other.
Thanks for a great overview of the new features. The GNOME devs continue to amaze me by the excellent quality of their work. They've made their desktop and apps such a pleasure to use.