Stephen Alexander wrote:
here's a quick rundown for you:
cli is comand line interpreter, as you'd use in DOS or unix, as opposed to a GUI like Mac OS
kde is a window environment which runs on unix-type systems, of which linux and BSD are members. It's an implementation of X-windows.
nix box is a reference to a Unix or linux computer. The way X-windows is set up, you can run programs on one machine and have them display on another computer's monitor. This can be done in a completely cross-platform manner, so that as long as whatever machine you're displaying on can run some sort of X-window environment you can display the output from whatever type of machine you like. Exodus is one of those programs which will display X-windows on macintosh OS. I haven't used it in probably 8 years but it was good then so I'm sure it's great now.
hope this helps.
Helped me, thanks. :)
Apple are not the most open of companies so alot of what works under nix is not always the best way to go about about things and has been reached through trial and error. The way xfree works is an example, it works but not as fast as the finder under the MacOS, add that to a virtual memory mess with less than wonderful drive access, then start opening programs. Easier if you dont place the strain on the 68k and stick with cli.
Always better to try it yourself and I'm told netbsd has improved its disc access and virtual memory, I havent tried it lately.
Cheers
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