Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Just a question

[Kevin Geiss]

multiple virtual terminals. in linux, you can have multiple terminals & 
multiple X sessions. OS X 10.3 will be adding multiple aqua sessions, but I 
don't know if you can have multiple x sessions (Which you would want if you 
were running OS X in console mode without aqua as you mention)

also, this doesn't really apply to a laptop, but gentoo is much easier to 
configure start up services. I wouldn't want to set up apache, exim, nfs 
server, cvs pserver, imap server, etc., on OS X, I know it can be done but 
it's much more difficult & less flexible than gentoo (the virtual runlevels 
are just icing on the cake)

I agree with someone's point about filesystems. though hfs+ can be journaled 
now, it's still not as fast & robust as reiser or even ext3. I've gotten data 
corruption in OS X WITH JOURNALING twice in 6 months, but in YEARS of using 
linux, even when developing a kernel module & crashing the kernel every 5 
minutes, I've only gotten data corruption once.

there is a tradeoff between linux & OS X: OS X gives you consistency, linux 
gives you control. there is practically nothing in linux you can't tweak. but 
in OS X, especially in the gui, you get things the way apple wants. I've 
gotten used to the apple paradigm now. but I still find it extremely awkward 
to switch between more than 2 apps quickly. I'm reduced to clicking in the 
dock. expose will have me clicking on a thumbnail instead of clicking on the 
dock, not much help. do you know of a good way to easily interact with 
exactly 3 apps at the same time? (mail, safari, and terminal is an example 
set of apps I use together a lot)

here's a purely gui thing: I never quite trust OS X's drag & drop, so I avoid 
it. sometimes it doesn't work, or doesn't do what I expect. at least KDE asks 
me what to do whenever there's an ambiguity. 

oh wait, I forgot though, I can go to a console in OS X, run an aqua-less 
xsession, and kde :D

I am excited about gentoo/OS X, then I can dump fink for when I'm in OS X. I 
never bothered to learn apt, I already know portage inside & out, the only 
apt commands I know are 'apt-get install' and 'apt-get remove'

does anybody know a good replacement for stat(1) in OS X? fink doesn't seem to 
have it in fileutils. I miss it a lot, I'm always wanting to know file access 
times. (don't ask me why right now, but it's a recurring irritant in OS X). 
so that's another linux advantage.

plus my work is an internal project with linux as a target, so I can use 
gentoo on my ibook to do real work, the project currently doesn't fully 
compile in OS X

On Saturday 12 July 2003 11:57 am, james toy wrote:
> You guys I have a question cause I do... Well what is the advantage of
> linux on a powerbook g4 867 rather than mac os x they are basically the
> same thing you can even leave aqua and just use xwindows what is the
> “linux” difference that I should use gentoo as opposed to mac os x cause I
> have both
> -jt


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