Subject: Re: Choosing a Unix
To: Jaron Omega <inphrared@ephemeron.org>
From: David A. Gatwood <dgatwood@deepspace.mklinux.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 09/06/2000 13:05:05
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, David A. Gatwood wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Jaron Omega wrote:
>
> > None of the Free unix/unix-like OS's for the Mac can display graphics
> > very well, or better X11 performance is not too impressive. This being
> > said in reference to my own experiance with dealing with X on a Performa
> > 6360 with 32M RAM and on a 233Mhz Beige G3 with 320M RAM. Neither was
> > really able to run X well, not even across a network. Linux/NetBSD
> > was the free unix(like) OS's I have run on them.
>
> The 6360 is very different from the original poster's G3, though. The
> beige G3 has an ATI chipset, for which video acceleration support has been
> available for both MkLinux and LinuxPPC for at least a year, probably two.
Never mind, I missed that you also tried on a G3. I'm very surprised that
X didn't work well for you. It seems quite responsive on every one I've
tried. It's possible you were using an unaccelerated Xpmac/XFree server.
David
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