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GTK+OSX for Mac OS X Aqua

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the making-cross-platform-groovy dept.

Scott Sheppard writes "GTK+OSX has released a native Mac OS X Aqua port of the Linux-based GTK+ open source graphical user interface library. GTK+ (GIMP Toolkit) is a popular widget library supporting graphical applications for Linux. GTK+OSX version 0.1 is an alpha release intended for developers." This could make The Gimp cozy for MacHeads without installing XDarwin and OroborOSX. Looking good!

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  1. Excellent! by I+Am+The+Owl · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Any news yet on when GTK+ will decide to stop looking and acting like shit on Windows? I'd love to be able to use some GTK apps on Windows, but, well, they're ugly as hell and freeze a lot.

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  2. Re:My only wish... by axxackall · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    why not X86+Linux? That will give you much more complete X11 based desktop environment and application set.

    Today you can use one of several stable Linux/PPC distros: Gentoo, Debian, Mandrake, YDL, Slackware.

    Personally I prefer Gentoo by three main reasons:

    • Gentoo is the fastest Linux on PPC and it beats all others (on PPC) including Mac OS X;
    • Gentoo has the best (among other Linux distros AND other OSes) package management tool: Portage;
    • Gentoo has the best ratio between stable and bleeding-edge packages;
    • Gentoo has the best (among all other distros and OSes) support on famous Gentoo forums;
    And in case of Mac OS nostalgy, keep the dual boot or use MOL (Mac-on-Linux). I use both ways: I scan hard-printed papers and photos after rebooting to Mac OS (I use 9.2 - I hate OS X by same reasons as people hate Microsoft Windows) and I use MOL when I need Macos binaries (some games) to run (when it doesn't require direct access to USB).
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    Less is more !
  3. Re:My only wish... by axxackall · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    You don't know Gentoo, do you? The main thing what makes Gentoo very different from other distros and OSes is installation form the source code. And when I say "installation" I mean installation of everything. Every single package is compiled from the source code with compilation flags the most optimal for that particular hardware (CPU and motherboard).

    All other OSes keep one universal binary distribution compiled for the most conservative CPU/chipset. As a result the performance on the fastest compter is not that fast. Otherwise, there is a risk of application crashing (another common problem on Mac OS X). The bad news about proprietary Mac OS X - nothing you can do with it. You cannot recompile your kernel, you drivers, you GUI.

    Of course, you can install whole Gentoo or just some packages from pre-compiled binaries, available from distro or pre-compiled by yourself. Such option is especially useful when you have more than one identical computers, so you compile each package only once.

    There is a foundation of performance comparison of Gentoo and Mac OS X. Read Gentoo forums. Or, even better, try yourself to see the real difference.

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    Less is more !