When i did the tiger thing, I used Apple's native X11. Things worked MUCH better. The app that makes it all worthwhile for me is MacGimp, altho i'm sure i'm not the only person who uses it but can't get it to PRINT. That's one gordian knot i've yet to solve for; I hear there IS A WAY but it isn't pretty from what I can tell....
Sidebar: Powerbooks get sorta HOT compiling huge sourcecode sets. Me, I judiciously used athletic ice-packs above/below as heat-sinks. FWIW....
On 9/28/05, Martin White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
Hmm. I think FAQ Q5.26 is what I need. I'm going to do it anyway! If
I have to reinstall then so be it :o)
On 28 Sep 2005, at 21:41, Martin White wrote:
> Having owned my mac for about 35 days now, I've loaded and unloaded
> bucket loads of software titles and have generally had a really
> good play about with the system.
>
> I'm starting to see a few instabilities, and now I know what I want
> to buy / install and what I don't I was considering doing a fresh
> wipe / install of Tiger to get things back to the way they were the
> day I unpacked it. This is easy enough since I have a 160GB
> firewire drive, but what about fink?
>
> I only have Quanta+ installed, but it took a good day or so of
> compiling and 1.8GB of disk space to get there, and I don't
> desperately want to have to go through all that pain again!
>
> If I were to back up the entire /SW tree. Then reinstall Tiger.
> Then reinstall fink, then finally restore my /sw tree would this work?
>
> Would be nice if it did and I didn't need to recompile it all again :)
>
> Ta,
> martin.
>
>
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