Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 07:51:29 -0800 From: Bruce Lacey <BBLacey@Home.com> To: Brennan Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net>, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au>, "[gill]" <gill@topsecret.net>, Isak Lyberth <ily@serv01.vejlehs.dk>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: BSD on macs Message-ID: <B6AE9801.3C71%BBLacey@Home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102112334010.73165-100000@home.offwhite.net>
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on 2/11/01 9:41 PM, Brennan Stehling at brennan@offwhite.net wrote: > I had Darwin installed with just the command-line interface and looked > around a bit. I never tried getting X up although I do have the > binaries. It is a simple matter of having only one Mac to play on and I > typically use my mac to do everything, so a base Darwin system does not > help much. > > I also had the MacOS X beta on an iMac and it was horrible. The GUI was > so intense I could see it was slowing down the interface. On a nice G4 > that may not be noticable, but I have heard they have sped up the GUI a > great deal. There is no reason a GUI for the base OS should take up so > much CPU time. It is bad enough running a web browser and an mp3 player, > nevermind trying to run a Gnutella client or Adobe/Macromedia software at > the same time. > > But I suppose a sluggish OS will encourage mac users to purchase a faster > more expensive Mac computer. The bean counters at Apple probably see that > as a plus for them. I see it as another reason I will hope the media > capabilities of FreeBSD and Linux both increase. I want to be able to > choose which hardware to be my ideal computer, not what Steve Jobs chooses > to throw together. I wonder if Adobe and Macromedia will ever see FreeBSD > and Linux as a worthwhile platform for them. Actually, the 4K46 build from early February is much, much faster than the public beta. I am sure Apple is still in the process of optimising and eliminating all the debug code but it is shaping up to be a really nice OS which will be a strong endorsement for the BSD community. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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