On 10/19/05, eric pareja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Noong Mar, Okt 18, 2005 ng 03:37:41PM +0800, sinabi ni Miguel A Paraz: > > > Just a thought... how about GNOME and other Ubuntu apps on the OS X > > kernel? OS X supports X11 right? > > Well, if I ran apps under OS X, they wouldn't be Ubuntu apps. :) > Mac OS X has X11 support, but you need to install it. Plus, I think cocoa > apps are more responsive in OS X than X clients. > > For some reason though, Linux does seem more responsive than OS X on > the iBook. Maybe I'm just biased, but there have been documented > comparisons of OS X and Linux on the same box that show that Linux > outperforms OS X.
Depends, IMHO. I believe the "sluggishness" of earlier versions of OS X is partly to be blamed on the display pipeline. The latest release of OS X (Tiger) fixes this [1][2]. As for other parts not concerning the display pipeline vis-a-vis OS X vs Linux, *shrug* [1] http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/13 [2] http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/14 IANAME (Not A Mac Expert) -- JM Ibanez -- Book: If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of Hell, a level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater. (Firefly, "Our Mrs. Reynolds") ----- http://www.livejournal.com/~jmibanez/ http://www.mycgiserver.com/~butiki/ _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
