Subj : Macintosh
To   : Darkytoo
From : Mrproper
Date : Sun Jul 03 2005 12:25 pm

  Re: Macintosh
  By: Darkytoo to Mrproper on Sat Jul 02 2005 17:12:00

 >   Re: Macintosh
 >   By: Mrproper to Deuce on Sat Jul 02 2005 04:02 am
 > 
 >  >   Re: Macintosh
 >  >   By: Deuce to Angus Mcleod on Fri Jul 01 2005 23:28:00
 >  >
 >  >  >   Re: Macintosh
 >  >  >   By: Angus Mcleod to Deuce on Fri Jul 01 2005 23:53:00
 >  >  >
 >  >  >  >  > The closer you look, the more you discover that X and Aqua share
 >  >  >  >  > ability to put graphics on the screen.
 >  >  >  >
 >  >  >  > X is pretty clunky, but it does have one or two nice features....
 >  >  >
 >  >  > Hrm?  I've never found X clunky, I love it to death.  If they would ge
 >  >  > their butts and add sound support into it too (and take it out of the 
 >  >  > would be madly in love.  Aqua is very pretty, but it's a completely di
 >  >  > class of software... and could not possibly replace X for my current u
 >  >  > either at home or at work.
 >  >  >
 >  >
 >  > I've alway wished they would take the sound support out of the kernel and
 >  > create a universal sound server for X, that would be lovely.
 >  >
 >  >
 > That's the one of linux's many, many issues.  There never will be "the
 > universal sound server" because someone will get sick of it and write their
 > own.  KDE?  Gnome?  NextStep?  text mode?  How many thousands of mail reader
 > are there?  millions of window managers?  each one different, with of course
 > they're own themes.  I used to think this was a strength of linux, having so
 > many choices, but it just overwhelms after a while.  I used to run linux and
 > then I got this powerbook for school.  Want to install a program?  Just
 > download and copy it to the applications folder.  want to delete a program?
 > just delete it.  No messing around with libraries, wider selection of
 > software, and the whole thing just works...no scrambled file system, no more
 > having to re-compile the kernel to enable some strange driver.  It's
 > wonderful.
 > 

*nix and  BSD  system are becoming  mainnstream and I  thinks it's about time
for  the  hardware  mffgs to jump on tahe bandwagonn.


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