[luau] Still curious about OSX display speed

[John & Sheila Nickerson]

Linux Journal had a nice piece by Doc Serarls and Brent Simmons.  It can be 
seen at http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5610.

I don't think it'll answer all your questions but then agian, it might.

It's a good read anyway and I can say I prefer my OS X box to this Linux box 
as a desktop machine.  My preferred Linux desktop is Windowmaker.

John

On Monday 08 April 2002 07:03 am, you wrote:
 I'm just guessing, but I believe it might be faster because the PPC
 processor is generally considered superior and faster to anything else.
  I could be very wrong though.  For me the big question would still be
 the user friendliness issue.  I have some serious questions about the
 user friendliness of Linux that I will bring up one by one on the list.
  The question in my mind is whether or not Apple as already considered
 my issues and arrived at satisfactory more desirable user friendly
  solutions.

 Jeff Mings wrote:
 > Thanks for the informative endorsement, Scott!
 >
 >    I have to ask, though,  how is graphic performance (i.e., with
 > Aqua), compared to ppc Linux or Yellow Dog Linux on the same hardware?
 > E.g., if I run several sets of graphic filters or script-fu in Gimp,
 > how would the fastest linux version be likely to compare against OSX
 > in terms of completion times?
 >
 > Thanks,
 > -Jeff
 >
 > R Scott Belford wrote:
 >> 24/7 for weeks on end I run a multi-user gui on top of a freebsd
 >> core.  My wife logs in and word processes, emails, and surfs.  I
 >> login, read email, surf, and do some word processing.  I listen to my
 >> music wirelessly from a debian file server on my lan.  When I want
 >> them, I have outstanding video and image editing software.  When I
 >> print, I have a remote queue on a redhat box setup most easily
 >> through the gui.  I entered the queue name, the ip address, and what,
 >> if any, filter I wanted.  When I want it, I have a shell.  Behind my
 >> happy gui, apache is serving web pages(locally), samba is sharing
 >> files with my windoze box, ssh is ready for me to login, the ftpd is
 >> ready to go should I summon its services.
 >>
 >> I use OSX.  I have for about half a year now.  I use it "hard".  It
 >> is everything you want an os to be.  I have an original ibook with an
 >> airport card.  It is all older hardware.  Now that osx has had a few
 >> revisions, it gets a serious two thumbs up.  Original imacs can be
 >> had for not much more than 600.  Good stuff.  I think it exceeds user
 >> friendly.
 >
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