[Gllug] Linux laptop?

[mallum]

on Wed, May 22, 2002 at 02:11:14PM +0100, Simon Stewart wrote:
> 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.
>

Make it 'snappy' and at least do workspaces, oh and network
transparent :)
 
> > 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?
> :)

Hmm well were talking hardware specs here really and the other doesn't
really make that much hardware...
Apple are also pretty evil when it come to things like there patent
affecting freetype, quicktime etc .... 

  -- mallum


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