Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 13:15:11 +0200 (SAST) From: Francois Hensley <cyberdeth@intekom.com> To: Glug <glug@linux.org.za>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Darwin on PPC + X + WindowMaker Message-ID: <XFMail.20010821131511.cyberdeth@intekom.com>
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Oh yeah i forgot to update all you guys. I installed Darwin 1.3.1 + XFree86
4.1.0 + WindowMaker 0.64 on my PowerMac G4 this weekend.
installation was quick and painless. startedf the installer selected a
drive/partition and it basically copied a image of a working Darwin machine
onto the partition. i was up in less than 5 minutes. Had to sert up the
networking and stuff manually. still learning where everything is.
Darwin is impressive.
A bit unresponsive in my opinion. i have not been successful in getting
multiple desktops on Darwin. X run slowish. almost looks as if it is not taking
advantage of the hardware. when you exit X, the screen does not clear but the
keyboard does still work. Windowmaker works as normal, but as you can
understand with the mac having only one button right clicking and middle
clicking is a bit hard to do. Compiling of WindowMaker was painless. just with
libProplist i had to specify FreeBSD as the host.
So all in all i'm impressed so far, but performance is a bit sluggish compared
to other distros.
Also bootup takes much longer than a normal FreeBSD bootup, and you can't see
the freakin' status of bootup.
Cheers.
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