[Tfug] x on an imac

[Joshua Bernstein]

Debian PPC. In fact, we have a local mirror for it here too. I run  it 
here at LPL (as well as Tim) and works very nicely.

-Josh


On Jul 22, 2004, at 8:08 AM, Anthony Hess wrote:

> Darwin is, as the web site says, the underlying layer of Mac OS X.  It
> does not include Quartz, Carbon, Cocoa, and some of the system 
> frameworks.
> It definitely doesnt have Quicktime, iLife, Safari, or any of the other
> Apple bundled software. The hardware support for any New World Mac,
> obviously, will tend to be there - but its still different than 
> FreeBSD or
> Linux by a long shot.  From a test perspective Id try it, but I dont 
> see
> much of a compelling reason to run it in production (unless you want to
> bone up on your Mac expertise or already have a lot of OS X boxes).
>
> If nobody can help you getting Gentoo on there, I just say try a 
> different
> distro and call it a day.  On the other hand, someone must know the 
> answer
> ...
>
> --
> Anthony Hess
> Support Systems Analyst, Sr.
> CoEM Computer Services
>
>>> 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.
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