> Okay, am I the only one on the planet who is not seeing instability.
Nope, there are plenty of people for whom X works just fine.
> What instability???
On the other hand, there are plenty of people for whom X works *not* fine or
not at all.
> Did X crash?
Oh yeah, I can make X crash in all kinds of unique ways. Most of them the
same ways I could make it crash during the public beta.
> What do you people do to your poor macs???
Well, I do have a Beige G3 with a built-in DVD personality card (which is
about the worse platform for MacOS compatibility). Which had a third party
processor upgrade (which wasn't supported, so I had to remove it), a
Firewire/USB PCI card (which wasn't supported, so I had to remove it), a
third party video capture PCI card (which wasn't supported, so I had to
remove it), third party RAM (which is no longer recognized after the
firmware upgrade, so I had to remove it), an external Firewire drive (which
wasn't supported, so I had to remove it), an external SCSI tape drive (which
wasn't supported, so I had to remove it), an external SCSI CD-R drive (which
wasn't supported, so I had to remove it), an external high speed CD drive
(which wasn't supported, so I had to remove it), a SCSI-based high
resolution scanner (which wasn't supported, so I had to remove it), a
USB-based printer/scanner (which wasn't supported, so I had to unplug it),
etc, etc, etc...
At the moment, I can't seem to use any of my USB cameras or my Firewire
Digital Video Camcorder with my Macintosh. But that's okay, even if I
could, I couldn't store the video since I can't access my Firewire drive.
Aside from that, it works just great.
Well, at least id did once I removed the 30 gigabyte drive that I'd replaced
the original 4 gig drive with. The 30 gig drive's first partition was "too
big" to work on the Beige G3.
But once I stripped off all the third party hardware, gave up running the
digital video applications I like to play with, and started to treat my
computer as a toy instead of a tool, it worked just fine. ;-)
Still, I'm looking forward to a MacOS X 10.1 in the not so distant future.
And within a day or two I'll be buying yet another drive (far easier to buy
another drive than it is to back up and restore 30 gigs) to partition for
dual booting purposes...
So I still officially advise "mere mortals" to not upgrade to MacOS X until
Apple, by default, ships it on every machine.
mikel
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