Why OS X instead of YDL?

[Nils Crompton]

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A reversal of the question is also illuminating.  Why OSX instead of 
YDL?  Only one thing: Graphics.  Simply, it is a nice platform for use 
for Visual Art.  If linux (or wintel) had FCP, Lightwave, After Effects 
and Photoshop in a seamlessly integrated environment I'd dump MacOS.  
But then I would also dump PPC.  I'd get a cheap AMD box, and a free 
LinuxOS.  AU$2500 for a screaming system vs AU$3000 for a slow G4!

So really the question is: If no OSX then why YDL/PPC?

Nils

PS: Hey come to think of it Linux has Film Gimp and Maya doesn't it?  
Is there a compositor and an editor for it too?  Do Shake and Avid run 
on it?

On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 08:07  AM, B. Charles Reynolds wrote:

>> Perhaps an odd set of questions.  I belong to a small Mac club, and 
>> the members
>> know I'm fooling around with YDL on an old PM 7200, so I imagine it's 
>> only a
>> matter of time before I'm asked to demonstrate YDL at a club meeting.
>>
>> I'm sure I'd be asked...why mess around with YDL, since OS X is now 
>> BSD-based?
>> I've got one answer:  runs on several pre-G3 machines...but what else 
>> could I
>> offer?  Why would anyone use YDL, for example, on an iMac, since OS X 
>> is
>> available?

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A reversal of the question is also illuminating.  Why OSX instead of
YDL?  Only one thing: Graphics.  Simply, it is a nice platform for use
for Visual Art.  If linux (or wintel) had FCP, Lightwave, After
Effects and Photoshop in a <bold>seamlessly integrated
environment</bold> I'd dump MacOS.  But then I would also dump PPC. 
I'd get a cheap AMD box, and a free LinuxOS.  AU$2500 for a screaming
system vs AU$3000 for a slow G4!


So really the question is: If no OSX then why YDL/PPC?


Nils


PS: Hey come to think of it Linux has Film Gimp and Maya doesn't it? 
Is there a compositor and an editor for it too?  Do Shake and Avid run
on it?


On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 08:07  AM, B. Charles Reynolds wrote:


<excerpt><excerpt>Perhaps an odd set of questions.  I belong to a
small Mac club, and the members

know I'm fooling around with YDL on an old PM 7200, so I imagine it's
only a

matter of time before I'm asked to demonstrate YDL at a club meeting.


I'm sure I'd be asked...why mess around with YDL, since OS X is now
BSD-based?

I've got one answer:  runs on several pre-G3 machines...but what else
could I

offer?  Why would anyone use YDL, for example, on an iMac, since OS X
is

available?

</excerpt></excerpt>
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