From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 13 7:56:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from home.offwhite.net (home.offwhite.net [156.46.35.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE46337B491 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 07:56:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (brennan@localhost) by home.offwhite.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1DFu8P04827; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:56:08 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from brennan@offwhite.net) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:56:08 -0600 (CST) From: Brennan Stehling To: Bruce Lacey Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt , Tony Landells , "[gill]" , Isak Lyberth , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD on macs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I would think the debugging could would be turned on by a make option and easily turned off by withholding that debug flag. That is how I would do it. Perhaps they did not have that luxury with how they are doing this. I think I am able to compile a debugging flag into FreeBSD. It is an option in the kernel config file. You can also turn on logging in the firewall, which is a way of debugging as well. I am glad they are optimizing. I have been surprised with how little processor time the new XFree86 4.0 needs. If Aqua can match that level of efficiency it will do well in the Mac market. > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message