On 8/7/03 2:24 AM, "Kent Borg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 01:03:48PM -0400, Hal Burgiss wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 06:41:34PM +0900, Doug Lerner wrote:
>> 
>>> display projector. This is trivially easy with my Mac, and I was just
>>> wondering if it would be as easy with Linux?
>> 
>> Of course not. Mac = easy, Linux = power. Different points of
>> emphasis. 
> 
> Don't be quiet so sweeping.
> 
> I think I remember that the Mac won't talk to a second video card as
> additional desktop if there was nothing connected to it at boot,
> requiring a reboot to add a second card.  Is mirroring more friendly,
> or does it also require a reboot?  (Or did they possibly fix this?)

Current Macs do this all in real-time, without rebooting. You just plugin
and it works, plugout and it returns to normal.

doug

> 
> Certainly, even though the Macintosh has gotten much more user-hostile
> in the last few years (why do you think I gave it up after years of
> being a loyal fan?), Linux has a ways to go to be so friendly.  But at
> least Linux is heading in the right direction.
> 
> 
> -kb, the Kent who once stood up at an Apple Developer's Conference and
> asked (presciently, IHHO) whether the newly announced Extensions
> folder wasn't going to merely shift System folder clutter instead of
> cleaning it up.
> 


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