[ydl-gen] Slow ibook X11 (2D)

[John Michael Zorko]

Warren,

I, too, really like OSX, and I view it as one of, if not _the_, finest  
*nixes out there for a very wide range of tasks.  Apple has done a  
really good job with it I think.  The OSX experience on Apple PPC  
hardware is generally better than the Linux experience on the same  
hardware (which is often _not_ the case with PC hardware -- the Linux  
experience is often as good or better than the Windows experience).

That being said, there are still reasons why Linux on Apple PPC  
hardware might still be preferable, depending on what you need to do:

1. if you're a C / C++ developer (pro or not), there are differences  
-- kqueue is not epoll (not that one is necessarily better than the  
other as they both solve the same sort of problems, but they are  
different), for instance
2. if filesystem type is important, HFS+ is not ext3 (case  
sensitivity, filename length, resource forks compared to xattrs, etc.)
3. if you need AIO on non-file FDs, Linux will let you do that while  
OSX will not
4. the GNU toolchain is the same on PPC Linux as it is on x86 Linux,  
while Apple's toolchain, while using gcc, is not the same as GNU's  
toolchain i.e. Apple's linker is not GNU ld, Mach-O is not elf ...  
again, not that one is better than the other, but they are different
5. probably the biggest reason -- Apple likely won't support OSX on  
PPC for much longer, so hopefully YDL will ...

Regards,

John

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> Actually, I just gave up running linux on my iBook (I reformatted the
> disk, deleting the linux partitions). I have spent quite a bit of
> time with  three different linuxes: YDL 6.1, Yubuntu 8.10 and Yubuntu
> 7.10. Except for some easily solved problems, each one installed with
> few problems. After installation, I found that the user experience
> with the OS was far worse than with OS X and I repeatedly asked
> myself  "why am I doing this?"