[lug] OS X looks pretty nice

[Prescott Oelke]

  Let's see. Linux on the Titanium Powerbook....sounds interesting. I see no
reason why it won't work (it runs on my Cube and dual G4 tower). But linux
doesn't use Altivec (or whatever it's called) so under linux your G4
basically turns into a G3. OS X is beautiful, it is a huge step up from the
old MacOS, it is... a huge resource hog, that 128Meg minimum is the minimum
(I suggest 256 for really good performance, and don't even try it on 64).
  I like the Aqua UI though, if someone were to transplant it to X for Linux
I would probably dump Enlightenment. Oh, and of course you'll have to wait
for OS X DVD support (but then you probably didn't care about that if your
considering Linux).
   Overall I like linux on x86 machines, but once Apple irons the bugs out
of OS X I'll be more inclined to use that on my Macs.

Prescott

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 17:14:24 -0700, lug at lug.boulder.co.us wrote:

>  Speaking of which...I'm itching to buy a Mac now. Can anyone comment on
>  how well the new Powerbook G4 supports linux? I want to assure myself
>  that I can plop linux on this Mac if I don't like OS X. I would also be
>  interested in hearing about the cube or tower if people have real-life
>  experience with them running linux.
>  
>  -kyle
>  
>  "Scott A. Herod" wrote:
>  > 
>  >   Our in-house artist and web specialist installed OS X over the
>  > weekend.
>  > We've all been standing around today "Oohing" and "Aahing" over it.
>  > If Apple released it for Intel, I would certainly put it on the machine
>  > my wife and kids use (well maybe not, it seems to be a hog).  Imagine
>  > being able to run all of your existing mac apps and open up a shell
>  > to run vi or apache or ...  A quick vote around here suggests
>  > that for a desktop machine, it's better than linux with its available
>  > windowing systems.  Of course, none of us has started trying to poke
>  > it yet.
>  > 
>  > Scott
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