From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 14 21:37:29 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3220337B401 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 21:37:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.panix.com (mail1.panix.com [166.84.1.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A324643F79 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 21:37:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from float@firedrake.org) Received: from firedrake.org (localhost.panix.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail1.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D06548BBF for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 00:37:26 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 00:37:25 -0500 Subject: Re: Mac iBook OS10 + BSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) From: void To: hackers@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <15883.6486.551402.144752@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Message-Id: <6D4C8B03-284B-11D7-B66E-003065D4F4F2@firedrake.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, December 26, 2002, at 09:59 AM, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > I think he means text-only syscons like vtys. MacOSX does not have > them. I don't know about *multiple* text-only vtys, but it's easy enough to get the system into a no-graphics mode. I suppose you can simulate virtual terminals from there using "screen", which is in Fink, but it isn't quite the same thing. :-( > Also, X11 "feels" quite slow if you're > used to X11. (I'm writing this from KDE running under XDarwin on a ti > powerbook, 867MHz). Apple's new X11-for-Mac-OS-X beta software is much faster than XDarwin. -- Ben You buttered your bread, now lie in it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message