Dumping Aqua On Mac OS X For X11?

Sagefire asks: "Aqua is a beautiful interface but it can be incredibly resource intensive (especially for older/low-end machines). And, though the open source community has made great strides in reverse engineering proprietary drivers from Mac OS X, I would love to be able to simply keep using the drivers that came with it, for now. Since there is a fully functional BSD variant under the hood, is it possible (using X11.app, darwinports, and/or Fink) to boot to a command line and simply startx? Would it use less RAM to bypass Aqua?"

Comments

Why not use a better OS to do this?

[nxtw]

This seems like an exercise in pointlessness. If you're going to run X11, why not just run Linux? It's more than likely a bit faster (especially in low RAM situations), and there is more X11 software available.