On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Jared Lyvers wrote: > firstly, thanks for use of bandwidth. secondly, read an article the > otherday about Linux dying on the desktop and OSX w/ darwin taking its > place.
..SNIP.. > I currently use linuxfromscratch w/ xf 4.1 freetype and cups. this has > allowed me to have the best version of Linux that I have ever run. > However, it would be even better w/ updates that would allow easier > modifications of the system. > > this could also speed up the creation of applications for Linux, making > it an even better developing OS. My two cents: X isn't Linux's problem on the desktop. It's perfectly good, and at least as good as MSWindows (better, of course in my humble opinion). The only outward feature it gives away to OSX is transparency (and not the faux transparency you see in gterm or whatnot). What OS X/Darwin has that Linux will never have is a cetralized design. Open source, for all it's good points, is really bad about being easy to use over the entire OS. Certain parts are really easy (SWAT for samba, for instance), but somethings are much more difficult[0]. And even if someone (gnome and kde have done good things) tries, there's always some problems due to having to make things work for different distributions. Apple made Darwin and OS X in house, so it all fits. And they weren't afarid to mess with things (XML config files, for instance) to make their GUI tools easier to create and use. [0] CUPS, for instance. Or X if you have a funky config (it took me weeks to get my GF3/SGI 1600SW to work[1]) [1] After editing my own config file and installing the Binary Drivers for DVI to work. And I do this for a living. AvgJoe isn't going to manage it. Thank, BTW, to the list for the info to get it working. -- Matt Piechota _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
