Subject: RE: YDL vs. MacOS X
From: Jason Gan (jasong@documenta.com.au)
Date: Tue Jul 03 2001 - 21:14:59 MDT
Re: YDL vs. MacOS XWell, the real difference is MacOSX is based on FreeBSD.
Linux, with its (smaller, more efficient?) monolithic kernel, is 20% faster
than any of the BSDs... (NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD)
MacOSX = Darwin without Aqua (which is made for G4/Altivec)...
In fact you can install X on MacOSX and therefore have X and aqua running
side by side, but it would probably be very slow.
As stated below, MacOSX really needs a lot of memory and processor power to
do its work (especially if trying to do Classic emulation).
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter M. Bagnall [mailto:pete@surfaceeffect.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 4 July 2001 6:34 AM
To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Subject: Re: YDL vs. MacOS X
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
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Peter M. Bagnall
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