I had no problems installing Bochs on my iMac G3 500 either from source for a Mac OS X UI, or from Fink that provides an X11 UI. Furthermore, running DOS or Linux without X11 from Bochs is acceptable. However, Windows 98 under Bochs is too slow to be usable. Apple could maybe adapt Bochs to Mac OS X, as they did with XFree86.
Is tweaking the GUI tweaking the OS?
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No More Mac Tweaking?
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The story on Wired reports that changing the appearance of the GUI has become more difficult with Mac OS X. Isn't it a little extreme to conclude that the whole OS can not be tweaked. If Aqua may not be reconfigured as easily as some wish it to be, Mac OS X is a UNIX operating system, that runs many open source programs, including XFree86, Gnome or KDE. And I have as much fun tweaking Mac OS X than I have tweaking Linux that run on the same iMac, even if I haven't changed the appearance of Aqua yet.
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I had no problems installing Bochs on my iMac G3 500 either from source for a Mac OS X UI, or from Fink that provides an X11 UI. Furthermore, running DOS or Linux without X11 from Bochs is acceptable. However, Windows 98 under Bochs is too slow to be usable. Apple could maybe adapt Bochs to Mac OS X, as they did with XFree86.
The story on Wired reports that changing the appearance of the GUI has become more difficult with Mac OS X. Isn't it a little extreme to conclude that the whole OS can not be tweaked. If Aqua may not be reconfigured as easily as some wish it to be, Mac OS X is a UNIX operating system, that runs many open source programs, including XFree86, Gnome or KDE. And I have as much fun tweaking Mac OS X than I have tweaking Linux that run on the same iMac, even if I haven't changed the appearance of Aqua yet.