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Dumping Aqua On Mac OS X For X11?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the a-change-in-UI dept.

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?"

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  1. Heathen by bar-agent · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sacrilege! Burn the unbeliever! Burrrnnn him!!!

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    i'd hit it so hard, if you pulled me out you'd be the king of britain [bash.org]
  2. aqua is fine for older machines by steak · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    i have a pismo powerbook and os x 10.3.9 works fine. granted not as good as my moms shiny new macbook. but it still runs surprisingly well for a 6 year old laptop.

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    lose != loose