From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 13 7:51:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C5A637B491 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 07:51:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.5] ([24.19.155.245]) by femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010213155109.IVMA2521.femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com@[192.168.0.5]>; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 07:51:09 -0800 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/9.0.2509 Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 07:51:29 -0800 Subject: Re: BSD on macs From: Bruce Lacey To: Brennan Stehling , Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Tony Landells , "[gill]" , Isak Lyberth , Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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