[Gllug] Linux laptop?

[Simon Stewart]

On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 01:35:59PM +0100, mallum wrote:
> on Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:25:12AM +0100, Jim Bailey wrote:
> >  standard X
> > runs on Darwin and I think but I maybe wrong on this you can have both
> > Aqua (OSX GUI) and normal X running together.
> > 
> 
> The machine currently triple boots. Though I really dont like
> OSX. 
> 
> >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.  

Talking to some Apple folken (or, at least, people who have used OS X
10.2 [Jaguar]) things are going to improve a lot. OS X suffers from
the fact that Apple had been dithering about their next-gen OS for
sufficiently long that people were loosing faith.

> Im also a little pissed at Apple who wave the open source darwin flag
> yet close off all the darwin drivers that do things like power
> management.

They're the best of the major desktop OS vendors, though, aren't they?
:)

Cheers,

Simon

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"Do I look like a sissy?"                -Calvin


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