On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:54:55 -0800 "Frank J. R. Hanstick" <[email protected]> wrote: > My current platform is a dualMPC-7448 (G4 model) which is still not a well > supported cpu under Linux.
Are you sure your system is still not well supported under Linux? I have been using Linux before I got my first (and current) iMac in 2004, and I almost exclusively used Linux on this system (Debian and Ubuntu) up until 2007. Then I bought Mac OS 10.5 for it. Mac OS 10.2, the system my iMac came with, had been inferior to Linux in many ways right from the start. But with Compiz (a compositing window manager) becoming part of every standard Linux setup I started to miss one more function in my system (apart from Adobe Flash and the "sleep mode"), so I thought Mac OS and MacPorts (or Fink) would do a better job than Linux with the basic "nv" display driver... which is not exactly true, unfortunately. Now for me Ubuntu has more up-to-date binary packages that just work, yet under Mac OS I have more display blink. So I'm trying to work with Mac OS, and cope with having to compile almost everything. But if you don't have an Nvidia graphics card (but ATI) the equation would solve differently. Anyway identical applications (VLC, claws-mail with many files in one directory, or digiKam) perform significantly better on Linux, on my iMac. As today's mail from Joshua shows, there are just not enough contributions to MacPorts to even think of regular binary releases - especially if we'd like to have them for two or three versions of MacOS (10.4 to 10.6), with all their different architectures (PPC, i386, AMD64...). If I'm not mistaken binaries need "releases" (like Ubuntu offers them twice a year), or at least the basic libraries must not change versions for a considerable time, so that installed programs depending on them don't break. Regards, Vlado _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
