Subject: Re: YDL vs. MacOS X
From: Peter M. Bagnall (pete@surfaceeffect.com)
Date: Tue Jul 03 2001 - 14:34:02 MDT
My understanding is that MacOS X does not use X (somewhat
ironically!), instead is uses a display layer based on PDF. I forget
what the Apple codename is, but I'm sure someone here knows.
Assuming I'm right that means you'd need to install a separate
Xserver under X to get that to work, which should work fine. I don't
know however whether there are any yet.
But it's not supported out of the box.
Pete
>First of all, I don't think people really care whether you approve
>of them using all three OSes on one machine.
>
>Second, I wonder how well does X work under MacOS X? I'd be
>interested to try to make that work so I could compile functional
>programs.
>
>Joe
>
>on 7/2/01 6:49 AM, Chris Ruprecht at chrup999@yahoo.com wrote:
>
>Hi all,
>
>Just a thought: I read a few posts of people trying to run MacOS
>Classic, MacOS X and YDL on the same machine in different
>partitions. My Question is: What's the point?
>If you're running MacOS X, you're already running a UNIX OS which
>gives you most of the tools YDL gives you as well. The stuff you
>don't have under X, you can download and compile yourself.
>I understand that people want to run YDL on their legacy hardware
>which is not supported by OS X or they don't like the new OS and
>want to run some form of UNIX. But running both flavors on the same
>machine just doesn't make sense to me. The argument "because I can"
>just doesn't cut it ;).
>
>I'm running YDL on my Pismo because I want to run UNIX but OS X is
>just too big and too clumsy an OS to run within 256 MB. I might give
>it another try, specially since I ordered a 512 MB SODIMM and I
>guess 768 MB should be sufficient to run OS X (for a few days). But:
>What can I do under OS X, I can not do under YDL 2.0 and vice versa?
>Is there an easy answer to that?
>
>Best regards,
>Chris
-- Peter M. Bagnall pete@surfaceeffect.com - http://www.surfaceeffect.com/
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