Re: Torvalds not impressed with OS X

2001-04-10 Thread Piers Cawley
Jonathan Stowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Chris Devers wrote: At 08:22 AM 9.4.2001 +, Robin Szemeti wrote: personally the ultimate task of any minimise/restore function should be to get a window on or off the dispaly as fast as possible ... slowly attempting

Re: Torvalds not impressed with OS X

2001-04-09 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Sat, 07 Apr 2001, you wrote: On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 08:30:07AM +0100, Rob Partington wrote: I mostly like MacOS X, but it is way too resource hungry. I shouldn't need 64M to run a GUI and Unix comfortably, that's just crap. It's not just *any* GUI though, it's a GUI that does

Re: Torvalds not impressed with OS X

2001-04-09 Thread Neil Ford
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 08:22:39AM +, Robin Szemeti wrote: On Sat, 07 Apr 2001, you wrote: On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 08:30:07AM +0100, Rob Partington wrote: I mostly like MacOS X, but it is way too resource hungry. I shouldn't need 64M to run a GUI and Unix comfortably, that's just

Re: Torvalds not impressed with OS X

2001-04-09 Thread Chris Devers
At 08:22 AM 9.4.2001 +, Robin Szemeti wrote: personally the ultimate task of any minimise/restore function should be to get a window on or off the dispaly as fast as possible ... slowly attempting some graphical wizardry whilst chewing up CPU resources its not one of the things I lust after

Re: Torvalds not impressed with OS X

2001-04-09 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Chris Devers wrote: At 08:22 AM 9.4.2001 +, Robin Szemeti wrote: personally the ultimate task of any minimise/restore function should be to get a window on or off the dispaly as fast as possible ... slowly attempting some graphical wizardry whilst chewing up CPU

Re: Torvalds not impressed with OS X

2001-04-09 Thread Neil Ford
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 05:03:35PM -0400, Chris Devers wrote: [snip] Luckily, Apple included a way to change the genie effect, but chose not to put it into a GUI tool at this time. I'm sure someone will have one written within a week, but for now, here's how you do it. Open a

Re: Torvalds not impressed with OS X

2001-04-07 Thread Rob Partington
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.msnbc.com/news/555930.asp Not really surprising news, though, since he was fighting with Tannenbaum in 1991 about whether micro-kernels were worth the bother or not. I mostly like MacOS X, but it is way too

Re: Torvalds not impressed with OS X

2001-04-07 Thread Piers Cawley
Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.msnbc.com/news/555930.asp Sadly, lacking on details. Paul, who still likes it. Certainly from the play I had with it at Neil's, it looks pretty good. Now, if I can just get someone to give me a G4 Titanium PowerBook I'll actually have

Re: Torvalds not impressed with OS X

2001-04-07 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Piers Cawley [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *Certainly from the play I had with it at Neil's, it looks pretty good. *Now, if I can just get someone to give me a G4 Titanium PowerBook I'll *actually have something to run on it. I have a Ti book and it seems resource hungry even on that. It consumes

Torvalds not impressed with OS X

2001-04-06 Thread Paul Makepeace
http://www.msnbc.com/news/555930.asp Sadly, lacking on details. Paul, who still likes it.