[Tfug] x on an imac

[Neil Short]

--- Ammon Lauritzen <ammon at simud.org> wrote:
> Shrug, it is my personal experience that NetBSD is
> anything but rock solid
> on everything. I could not for the life of me get it
> to run reliably on an
> Alpha. Wound up switching the machine to Debian and
> it's been wonderful
> ever since.
> 
You are probably right there. I never tried it myself.

> And as far as Darwin, well, the primary reason for
> our wanting an X-window
> based system is lightweightness. I don't know how
> much it differs from the
> commercial OSX, but I don't want that much eye
> candy. I also want to use
> OpenOffice and GAIM on these machines, and don't
> know how well their 
> server is integrated into things these days (I've
> not played with it for a
> few months - heard there's been an update since
> then).
> 

Actually, Darwin doesn't come with all that topheavy
GUI included in OS-X. It's some X11 app (I think it's
just XFree86.) Believe it or not, the expensive part
of OS-X is that humungus GUI. Under the covers it's
just FreeBSD. The documentation on the project seems
to be pretty terrible; however.

> Ammon
> 
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