Im running both debian linux on my ibook (clamshell 366mhz 128mb ram) and macosx on my imac dv (450mhz 384mb ram)
i as running linux on the imac before but blew it away due to hardware issues. macosx's gui seems to really bog it down. for example all its silly animations around the dock etc are clearly in need of more power than my g3 450 can offer but yet whilst straining through them quicktime is running without skipping a beat. also the imac (apparently) has an in built mpeg decoder which isnt supported in linux. so dvds run *perfect* in macos(9 or x) but poorly in linux (as the cpu must do all the work - which it isnt powerfull enough to do. i was using mplayer btw) i seem to be able to run everything unixy on macosx command line. x11 for macosx is pretty good. i run gimp2 (although its somehow half way between x11 and quartz right now) but its to demanding to be really usable on my 450 it was fine in linux. i found sound support in linux was good, but it didnt handle plugining in headphones and stuff properly. i posted bugs to alsa etc. but got sick of it and put on osx before a resolution was found. my imac is pretty much just for dvd/mpeg4/mp3/ogg play back anyway, so macosx works and seeing as im at uni the au$130 price tag rips the pants off xp. Dean -----Original Message----- From: Michael D. Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org> Date: Thursday, May 13, 2004 10:13 AM Subject: Re: Linux vs Mac OS 10.3(Panther) > And i'm wondering about the > performance on linux. I like Mac OS X, but hands down Linux is blazingly faster. Linux has breathed new life into my 1996 Power Mac 8500. It has a 350 Mhz PowerLogix G4 CPU upgrade card, but even with that Mac OS X (installed via XPostFacto) is so slow as to be unusable. There's certainly no possibility of using it for development. I also have a 700 Mhz iBook, and I would say that the feel of Linux on my 350 Mhz 8500, which has only a 50 MHz memory bus, is that my Linux mac feels faster and more responsive. My understanding is that Mac OS X works pretty well when used for purely Unix applications, for example running servers like Apache, but when you do anything with the GUI, it runs very slow compared to Linux. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. "I give you this one rule of conduct. Do what you will, but speak out always. Be shunned, be hated, be ridiculed, be scared, be in doubt, but don't be gagged." -- John J. Chapman, "Make a Bonfire of Your Reputations" http://www.goingware.com/reputation/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
