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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. Less RAM. by Ash-Fox · · Score: -1, Troll
    Would it use less RAM to bypass Aqua?
    No.
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  2. Re:Why not use a better OS to do this? by niXcamiC · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

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  3. What an incredibly informative post by Sexual+Asspussy · · Score: -1, Troll

    you cumshitting mouth-breather. it is pathetic that you take pride in running Nigger Linux on anything, much less a Mac, much less thinking anyone gives a shit.

    once, I ran X on a Mac IIcx for a while. it worked. please +1, Informative me until my ass leaks hot white cum due to overfilling.