I have an impression that Red Hat goes through frequent new builds. Is this true of the PPC versions?
Also, (Don't laugh at my naivete) is Apple's processor going to be PPC much longer? Does the G5 and IBM's possible ongoing collaboration herald anything new on this front?
Apple has no known plans to migrate to another processor. Doing so would require extensive re-working of OS X. Considering they've only been offering X for 3(?) years now, and are still optimizing the code, it doesn't even sound like a prudent thing to consider.
I've heard OS X described as the best performing Unix/Linux GUI ever developed.
In my opinion it is. Gnome always seems to rough around the edges. KDE is nice, and getting better with each release but it seems to be a little bulky and unresponsive at times, and it is difficult to get used to finding the various settings and system utilities (split between several different locations). Apple's GUI is reasonably responsive even on a 233MHz system, and the OS is blazingly easy to install (especially when compared to any flavor of Linux I've ever tried).
Hamlin
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