Re: Mac iBook OS10 + BSD

2003-01-19 Thread Nik Clayton
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 12:37:25AM -0500, void wrote: > On Thursday, December 26, 2002, at 09:59 AM, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > >I think he means text-only syscons like vtys. MacOSX does not have > >them. > > I don't know about *multiple* text-only vtys, but it's easy enough to > get the system i

Re: Mac iBook OS10 + BSD

2003-01-15 Thread Andrew Gallatin
void writes: > > > Also, X11 "feels" quite slow if you're > > used to X11. (I'm writing this from KDE running under XDarwin on a ti > > powerbook, 867MHz). > > Apple's new X11-for-Mac-OS-X beta software is much faster than XDarwin. > Much buggier too. And it lacks full screen mode. I

Re: Mac iBook OS10 + BSD

2003-01-14 Thread void
On Thursday, December 26, 2002, at 09:59 AM, Andrew Gallatin wrote: I think he means text-only syscons like vtys. MacOSX does not have them. I don't know about *multiple* text-only vtys, but it's easy enough to get the system into a no-graphics mode. I suppose you can simulate virtual term

Re: Mac iBook OS10 + BSD

2002-12-26 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Julian Elischer writes: > > That's with an unaltered macosX 10.1.5. > > from the user perspective it looks a lot like FreeBSD 3.{something} > > > I think he means text-only syscons like vtys. MacOSX does not have > them. Nobody has ever bee

Re: Mac iBook OS10 + BSD

2002-12-26 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 09:59:34AM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > Julian Elischer writes: > > .. > > Stick with MacOS-X it's going to run better onthis hardware than > > anything else. > > > > It all depends what you mean by better. If you're talking pure unix > performance, then I say y

Re: Mac iBook OS10 + BSD

2002-12-26 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Julian Elischer writes: > > news to me.. I run multiple terminal windows, each running tcsh. > That's with an unaltered macosX 10.1.5. > from the user perspective it looks a lot like FreeBSD 3.{something} I think he means text-only syscons like vtys. MacOSX does not have them. Nobody has

Re: Mac iBook OS10 + BSD

2002-12-23 Thread Jim Sander
First, this isn't quite appropriate for "hackers" - but I'll reply here since everyone else did. Nothing like the herd mentality. Think different? > > but OS 10 seems to lack some important features I want/need > > like virtual terminals If you demand "real" virutal terminals, you may be SO

Re: Mac iBook OS10 + BSD

2002-12-22 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Sunday, December 22, 2002, at 10:24 PM, Steve Kudlak wrote: David Hunt wrote: I have been using Linux (Slackware) for a number of years on my desktop, and have never used BSD. From what I've gathered, BSD sounds like the kind of OS I would like. [snip] This brings up an interesting ques

Re: Mac iBook OS10 + BSD

2002-12-22 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Steve Kudlak wrote: > > > David Hunt wrote: > > > I have been using Linux (Slackware) for a number of years on my > > desktop, and have never used BSD. From what I've gathered, BSD sounds > > like the kind of OS I would like. > > > > I Now need to get a laptop, and have b

Re: Mac iBook OS10 + BSD

2002-12-22 Thread Steve Kudlak
David Hunt wrote: > I have been using Linux (Slackware) for a number of years on my > desktop, and have never used BSD. From what I've gathered, BSD sounds > like the kind of OS I would like. > > I Now need to get a laptop, and have been thinking of getting a new > Mac Ibook, but OS 10 seems to