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

Re:Why not use a better OS to do this?

[niXcamiC]

Thats interesting, I had the exact opposite experiance, running OS X 10.4 and KDE 3 (kubuntu) on a g3 ibook with 128 megs of ram, then later 256, and OS X 10.4 was much faster. Not to mention, it ran propraitary software, which is alomst impossible on ppc linux.