Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 20:11:12 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> To: Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@webwarrior.net> Cc: David Kelly <dkelly@HiWAAY.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a Mac Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208212005550.17375-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <1029956516.17756.56.camel@markx.vladsempire.net>
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On 21 Aug 2002, Josh Paetzel wrote: > Date: 21 Aug 2002 19:01:54 +0000 > From: Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@webwarrior.net> <snip> > On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 23:45, David Kelly wrote: > > On Wednesday 21 August 2002 04:17 pm, Derrick MacPherson wrote: > > > > If there is any feature I'd like for FreeBSD to have is Apple's > > > > Aqua. > > > > > > Yeah, it's a nice interface, I find it gets more annoying after time > > > though. To be honest, my fave interface to any unix I have used so > > > far is 4Dwm from SGI. There was a few attempts at creating Aqua for > > > Linux, but Apple asked them to stop working on it. Short sighted I > > > would think, but what else is new? > > > > I too miss the simple and clean 4Dwm. > > > > But its not just the look of Aqua I desire for FreeBSD, but the whole > > shooting match behind it. If FreeBSD had that then all MacOS X > > applications should be as easy or easier to port to FreeBSD than Linux > > apps are today. > > > > And Apple would have a state of the art x86 platform. > > > > -- > > David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net > > A stste of the art i386 platform would be the death knell of apple. > They are a hardware company. If suddenly all they had to sell was OSX > and the other 3 apps they make that no one uses where does that leave > them? > > Apple is a lot like Sun, or SGI, or to stretch the analogy a tad > Compaq/HP. When you buy their systems you are buying a turn-key > solution. They (sometimes) designed the hardware, they wrote the OS, > they wrote the drivers, and there's on number on the back of the > handbook you call when something gets fux0red. > > I'm not claiming to have the end-all authoritative opinion on this, but > apple WOULD have to do some radical shifting around of their operation > if they were going to do OSX on i386, and I just don't see that shifting > around happening. > > Josh > The reason we got a PowerMac was for the tightly integrated hardware/opsys design. It's very cool, and I'm a PPC fan anyway. I like Aqua for it's polish and visual appeal, but I like XFree86 for it's ridiculous, arcane configurability and speed. I would rather have OSX on PowerPC hardware and nice, clean, quick FreeBSD on my Athlon. But Mr. Kelly's comment about "a state of the art x86 platform" still stands. JB /* * John Bleichert * syborg@stny.rr.com * http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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