I just don't understand why they are doing this. According to several reliable sources right here at Slashdot, BSD is dead. Is my information wrong. So maybe Steven King is still alive too, and hopfully all my arn't belong to them.
Yeah, too bad we can't mod the story as redundant. The purpose of a beta release is to find bugs, so the Safari beta seems to be doing its job. It's better to have a buggy beta than a buggy final release.
It would be reasonable to assume that Apple could do something like this. I KDE can make an unmodified XFree86 look better as far as font rendering goes, I don't see why Apple couldn't. The only problem is that even when fonts look nice in KDE and Gnome, they still look bad in OpenOffice. OpenOffice and xterm are the only programs I've used so far in Apple's X11, so I don't know what it would look lik in a "regular" X app. Lets all just keep n mind this is a 0.1 release. They might eventually be able to integrate it in such a way that most X apps are indistinguishable from regular Mac OS X apps.
It's techincally usable, but it's not much to look at. The fonts are especially terrible. I guess until a native Mac version(i.e. Aqua, Quartz), I'll stick with AppleWorks and use this to convert those nasty.doc files.
I just submitted that "bug." Maybe if enough people do they will add it for the final release.
While I'm posting, let me just say that besides the missing tabs, it is a great web browser. Before today, I was a Chimera user. I used CHimera because it was fast, lightweight, and looked good in OS X, but it had a few stability problems, mostly dealing with downloads and plugins, so I had to keep Mozilla and IE on stand by for each of those respective problems. Now I can finally use one web browser. It's about time.
There is a reason why Mac users shed their holiday pounds quicker than PC users. While PC user try diets and fail, Mac users fast ther entire week before the MacWorld Expo.
My mom at least gave me a chance to get mine out of the house, and I carried them around in my trunk for a while. Finally I decided to let my little brother "borrow" them, and now they are back in the same old closet.
Schools seem to be a good place to find old macs. I got 2 Classics, 4 SEs, a Plus, three Apple IIs and a Macintosh IIsi when my school district threw them out. There were probably 2 or 3 dozen 386s and 486s that would have made good Linux boxes, but some one got to them beforme and took all the RAM, but the 286s were intact.
The latest nighly builds are great. If there are some features you miss, it might be there. I wonder Why they haven't released a 0.7 yet. I'm hoping their next release will be 1.0, and it will be shipped as the default browser on OS X, after all, why else would they have made the theme more Aqua friendly.
They missed a lot of games, but there were only ten slots. I think they should have included Battle Zone: Rise of the Black Dogs(N64). While the PC version of Battle zone was okay, the N64 version was terrible. The terrain cosisted of endless plains of a single color. Sure there were some hills, but thats it, they didn't even try to make it look interesting. Gameplay was mind numbing at best. While some game types tried to add more strategic elements, they made this horrible game even more boring.
Sorry if I sound like a troll, but I hate it when people say that they've ported Darwin to x86 in response to people wishing for Mac OS X on x86. Darwin by it self is about as close to OS X and Linux and BSD. An x86 box running Darwin is just as useful as a Linux box, or even less since it doesn't have games like Quake 3 or Unreal Tounament 2003.
Yeah, my stupid Lexmark printer doesn't work under Linux since the drivers are binary only x86. Luckily I still have Mac OS X to do my real work with, and I use Linux just to play around with.
I noticed that the article said that there may be a Quartz port of Film GIMP in Q4 2003. Has the regular GIMP been ported to Quartz yet? I know the last time I used the GIMP on OS X, it used X11 like Film GIMP apparently does.
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WTF! I didn't see any naked girls on the site!
I hope Python integrates wxPython. With Python + wxPython, it can take on things like Java, Mono, and .Net.
I just don't understand why they are doing this. According to several reliable sources right here at Slashdot, BSD is dead. Is my information wrong. So maybe Steven King is still alive too, and hopfully all my arn't belong to them.
Yeah, too bad we can't mod the story as redundant. The purpose of a beta release is to find bugs, so the Safari beta seems to be doing its job. It's better to have a buggy beta than a buggy final release.
It would be reasonable to assume that Apple could do something like this. I KDE can make an unmodified XFree86 look better as far as font rendering goes, I don't see why Apple couldn't. The only problem is that even when fonts look nice in KDE and Gnome, they still look bad in OpenOffice. OpenOffice and xterm are the only programs I've used so far in Apple's X11, so I don't know what it would look lik in a "regular" X app. Lets all just keep n mind this is a 0.1 release. They might eventually be able to integrate it in such a way that most X apps are indistinguishable from regular Mac OS X apps.
It means that you need X11, not that it contains X11.
My download didn't install X11
No, Ive actually tried it, and on Apple's X11 too.
It's techincally usable, but it's not much to look at. The fonts are especially terrible. I guess until a native Mac version(i.e. Aqua, Quartz), I'll stick with AppleWorks and use this to convert those nasty .doc files.
Yeah, not only can I get music off of Kazaa, I can download a music player too.
I just submitted that "bug." Maybe if enough people do they will add it for the final release.
While I'm posting, let me just say that besides the missing tabs, it is a great web browser. Before today, I was a Chimera user. I used CHimera because it was fast, lightweight, and looked good in OS X, but it had a few stability problems, mostly dealing with downloads and plugins, so I had to keep Mozilla and IE on stand by for each of those respective problems. Now I can finally use one web browser. It's about time.
Also, it's good to hear about the iApps price.
There is a reason why Mac users shed their holiday pounds quicker than PC users. While PC user try diets and fail, Mac users fast ther entire week before the MacWorld Expo.
My mom at least gave me a chance to get mine out of the house, and I carried them around in my trunk for a while. Finally I decided to let my little brother "borrow" them, and now they are back in the same old closet.
Although I would need something more valuable than your mother for it. Do you have any sisters?
Yes, but you'll have to pay the shipping, and I cover shiping for the A3000.
Schools seem to be a good place to find old macs. I got 2 Classics, 4 SEs, a Plus, three Apple IIs and a Macintosh IIsi when my school district threw them out. There were probably 2 or 3 dozen 386s and 486s that would have made good Linux boxes, but some one got to them beforme and took all the RAM, but the 286s were intact.
The latest nighly builds are great. If there are some features you miss, it might be there. I wonder Why they haven't released a 0.7 yet. I'm hoping their next release will be 1.0, and it will be shipped as the default browser on OS X, after all, why else would they have made the theme more Aqua friendly.
[insert caffeinated beverage here]
Come on, it's New Years Eve, why now make that [insert alcoholic beverage here]
Yes, we owe a great deal of thanks to Mr. Gore for his invention.
Or he did like me a got it via Limewire. I would like a native version of the GIMP for OS X, that way I don't feel so guilty.
They missed a lot of games, but there were only ten slots. I think they should have included Battle Zone: Rise of the Black Dogs(N64). While the PC version of Battle zone was okay, the N64 version was terrible. The terrain cosisted of endless plains of a single color. Sure there were some hills, but thats it, they didn't even try to make it look interesting. Gameplay was mind numbing at best. While some game types tried to add more strategic elements, they made this horrible game even more boring.
How much can we trust the BBC's news reporting if they can't even spell program right.
Sorry if I sound like a troll, but I hate it when people say that they've ported Darwin to x86 in response to people wishing for Mac OS X on x86. Darwin by it self is about as close to OS X and Linux and BSD. An x86 box running Darwin is just as useful as a Linux box, or even less since it doesn't have games like Quake 3 or Unreal Tounament 2003.
My mac came with the GNU development tools.
Yeah, my stupid Lexmark printer doesn't work under Linux since the drivers are binary only x86. Luckily I still have Mac OS X to do my real work with, and I use Linux just to play around with.
I noticed that the article said that there may be a Quartz port of Film GIMP in Q4 2003. Has the regular GIMP been ported to Quartz yet? I know the last time I used the GIMP on OS X, it used X11 like Film GIMP apparently does.