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A Quick Look At Mac-On-Linux
Travis Emslander writes: "They have an article about Mac on Linux over at MaximumLinux.org. I didn't even know this project existed but it looks like you can run any MacOS app (not including MacOS X apps of course) on a PPC machine with it. I'm starting to wish I had a mac to try this stuff." Here are some more screenshots. I saw MoL demonstrated over a year ago (when OS X wasn't really an issue) and was amazed at how quickly it ran. Anyone out there using it on a day-to-day basis?
Wow and just imagine how brutally slow it is. I think it would have been a better investment of time to make a portable PPC emulator. Slower than this, true. But a lot more useful.
This is a waste of time for the linux community, how many people do you think are actually going to run linux on their mac. I support what linux stands for in all, I am an avid user but i think that the community resources are better used working on the only portion of the market where linux has a chance. The server side. I read this here before " if all the linux guys had taken all the effor they stuck into developing the software for the mac and the software for the desktop and took it instead and did work on the server side just think of where linux would be now. It would be alot farther, let me tell you.
I am not thinking negitively. I am just questioning the feasibility of this project
It's not the OS it's the user that sucks. If it's user friendly, you get stupider people. - clinko
thank you bill fucking gates! FUCKYOU.
Linux Rules, windoze is for lame fucks with empty heads.
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Apple just released OS X 10.1. Do Linux zealots care? Not really. They'd rather stick with KDE / Gnome than even consider Aqua running on top of Darwin. Oh, but run Mac OS (an OLD, antiquated, on-its-way-out Mac OS) on top of Linux, and it gets it's own post on Slashdot! Aren't there any sound, rational non-zealot Linux users in this forum?
I'm a longtime, hardcore, dedicated Mac user. I've tried OS X, and while it makes an excellent *nix, it's a disgusting, horrible replacement for Classic MacOS- the interface transparency and performance - not to mention metadata- that I use regularly to make a living isn't there and doesn't look like it's going to be.
The shit thing about MoS X is that yeah, you can run your Classic Apps- but classic is "transparent", leaving you staring at Aqua. (yay.) I loved the opaque bluebox in the original incarnation of MOSX server (aka Rhapsody), and could well and truly care less for OS X as it stands right now. The dock and the damned Geni effect are no replacement for HD aliases in the Apple menu, tabbed folders, folder colors, file comments, blah blah blah.
Where Mac On Linux is beyond cool is that it's opaque, and you can run it in a window (as opposed to full screen). I saw it on a friend's system under Debian- at the time he was having sound problems with it- and it ran great. You get all of your Mac goodness with all of your Linux goodness, and you get them separated, without the massive, nasty overhead of Aqua.
I'd gladly use OS X for server applications (our Rhapsody box at work just hit 372 days of uptime, and would have been over 700 if we hadn't been ordered to shut every machine in the work area down one particular weekend). Love the stability, and the UI is the best I've ever seen on a unix system.... but it's still incredibly piss poor for the functionality that I need out of a production system.
Hmmm....
I wonder if you could run MOL on OS X? MOS apps at native speed as opposed to the insanely gross hit you take when running them in MOSX would be truly useful.
He was taking the piss, retard.
And it was fucking funny, if not a bit unsubtle (but obviously too subtle for your inferior brain)
You finally figured out where everything is... Well, whoopdee doo. You know that the Mac interface was designed well from the beginning and refined over the years so that you can just get it virtually from first glance.
So how long did it take you to figure out that the system must be in the system folder? Not very bright, are you?
I'm a self-professed Mac fanatic and I'd be the first to tell you that Mac OS is not the most stable thing in the world. But you've got problems if it crashes on you every 2-3 hours. I can only assume that you still don't get it.