>> Unfortunately, Aqua is too resource-hungry for most. In fact, a lot of users
>> want deactivation of the Aqua fancy stuff to be included as an option. It is
>> possible to turn off these features through the command line, however.
>
> Is it Aqua itself, or the "classic" component? I read somewheres of a beta
> tester who was running OS X in 64MB of RAM, and said that it's Classic that
> requires the additional 64MB.
Both. The Classic environment is somewhat integrated to the core of the
system, which does add to the bulk of the system itself. There are other
components as well, though, such as the Quartz graphics layer.
Aqua, by itself, is a bit processor-intensive.
> In any event, I don't know that Aqua is the GUI to end all interfaces. Maybe
> we can do with Darwin (w/c is basically FreeBSD anyways) plus X11 and
> your favorite window manager.
There was a hack (for the Mac OS X Public Beta release) that allowed users
to use X11 instead of Aqua. However, why bother spending $130 just to do
that? :-)
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