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linolium
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 Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2003 2:10 am Post subject: Emulate Mac OS X |
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| Hi, I was wondering if it was possible to emulate Mac OS X (as close as possible) on a Gentoo system? |
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Ian
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| Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2003 3:35 am Post subject: |
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For GUI?
Probably e16 and a Mac OSX theme, I just tried that today, seemed to be the closest, and actually pretty nicely done too. |
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shm
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| Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2003 4:36 am Post subject: |
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There are a variety of kde/qt and gtk/gnome themes available for emulating OSX too. Both SuperKaramba and gdesklets (I think) have MacOSX dock app type widgets too. I've used http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=5812 and it seemed to work good.
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shm
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| Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2003 4:38 am Post subject: |
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But really, I've never seen a REAL good emulation of MacOSX. If you want it, get a Mac. And then install Gentoo on it a few weeks later because of the flat out slowness of OSX. That's what I did =)
(note that you can also run MacOSX natively in Linux through MacOnLinux.. you need ppc hardware of course)
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| Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2003 4:45 am Post subject: |
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Shm: You aren't serious about OS X being slow are you? It uses OpenGL for its windowing system and just about all OS X apps are built with altivec stuff, it's very fast.
Edit: Obviously I don't know much about what I am talking about 
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| Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2003 5:20 am Post subject: |
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| floam wrote: | | Shm: You aren't serious about OS X being slow are you? It uses OpenGL for its windowing system and just about all OS X apps are built with altivec stuff, it's very fast. |
It uses OpenGL in compositing windows. That means that it's incredibly smooth, not fast. Altivec does not have much to do with performance of most apps, or even with OSX. It mostly only helps applications that have do thousands of vector based calculations per second. That makes it is really good for things like image, video, and audio editing. Altivec is a feature of the processor, not OSX. GCC on Linux AND OSX makes full use of altivec when present.
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