[Tfug] x on an imac

[Matthew T. Eskes]

Heh, my bad :)

On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 09:15, Anthony Hess wrote:
> Actually I didn't say nobody was willing to help him :)
> 
> I said can ...
> 
> --
> Anthony Hess
> Support Systems Analyst, Sr.
> CoEM Computer Services
> 
> On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Matthew T. Eskes wrote:
> 
> > Anthony,
> > If you read some prior posts from me on this subject, I told him that I
> > have an XF86Config from my iMac and that I was willing to give it to
> > him. Im not trying to come off like a pr*ck, however, read all the posts
> > before saying that no one is willing to help him. Ammon, you have all
> > the help you need from me. If you do need anything, pop me off an email.
> > I'll get that config file off to you after work tonight.
> > 							-Matt
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 08:08, 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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