[Gllug] Linux laptop?

[mallum]

on Wed, May 22, 2002 at 02:12:43PM +0100, Matt Amos wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 01:35:59PM +0100, mallum wrote:
> > From a fresh install, its kernel crashes hard when I click the system
> > console app which is very scary. But mainly it turns my very workable
> > 550mhz running Linux into an utter dog running OSX.  
> 
> really? i havent found Terminal.app to be a problem at all (except that 
> they emulate a vt100 -- dark ages tech ;) if they upgraded to xterm-color 
> then i'd be very happy, and i dont think it would have been difficult for 
> them...
> 

It wasn't the terminal app ... something that looked similar. Im sure
the X license is compatible for them the rip off xterm code into some
aqua'd thing. 

> i'm having only one regret about buying this iBook... that i didn't get 
> a TiBook instead ;) mmm... quartz accelerated... <drool/>
> 
I didn't think they'd got round to making quatz hardware
accelerated yet. Certainly didn't feel like it. 

  -- mallum


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