mac windows manager

[Stryker]

I hear you can put kde and gnome and other linux window managers onto a mac. but is there any way you can use the windows manager that comes with osx jaguar into linux? I'm not sure if it'd be legal or not, but if it is, is there any way i could do it?

[Stryker]

not sure if this is the right section or if mac is, seems to tie into linux as that's what i need help with. (dont own a mac... yet)

[choasforages]

probably not, well, maybe with binary compatiblilty, and an entire install of  osx.

besides i thought that X11 for osx was X11 using display postscript as a driver or something? and its a clieint of cocoa i though?

[cloudstrife]

X11 for darwin (os x) is a totally seperate program.  Aqua, the OS X GUI, was built FROM THE GROUND UP by apple - it is not in any way, shape or form X windows.  Furthermore, no one has figured out how to get it to run on *DARWIN* x86, so the likelihood of it running on linux x86 is virtually nil.  You can 'skin' kde and/or gnome to look like aqua but last time i tried that it just slowed my comp WAAAAAY down.

[ December 08, 2002: Message edited by: cloudstrife ]

[dot.this]

Actually, you can use KDE and GNOME as unix window managers on top of Darwin. The best way to do this is to use OroborOSX with XFree86 for Darwin.

The result is that you have a computer that's simultaneously OS X and Darwin BSD, which is a lot like FreeBSD, but it's not Linux. Not all Linux software will run cleanly on BSD.

[choasforages]

some sick shit should port linux to the version of mach used for osx. and don't give me any shit that linux is pure monolithic www.mklinux.org

and then run the linux and darwin at the same time, agian, look on the mklinux site, you can run two instances of the linux kernel if you really wanted to

[ December 08, 2002: Message edited by: choasforages ]

[cloudstrife]

not too bad of an idea!! i guess u could say that mac-on-linux (http://www.maconlinux.org) is a step in that direction.  but yeah thats a damn good idea!

[choasforages]

maconlinux? i think that somebody should intagrate it into the ppc version of ydl's kde or gnome2. atleast it would be a better hack then redhats butchering of kde. scratch that bit of negativity, it would kick major ass

[ December 08, 2002: Message edited by: choasforages ]

[cloudstrife]

yeah no kidding, maybe we could make "fuckmicrosoft.com" PPC linux distro and include that.

WOW.  what an idea.  Fuckmicrosoft.com linux. what do u think?

[cloudstrife]

come on ppl, what do you think about putting together our own distro?

[Annorax]

Hell yes fuckmicrosoft.com Linux is the best idea ive seen in a long time.. maybe sell pre-burned cdr's in the fM$.com store for a buck apiece? i'd be handing those things out as christmas presents all over hell!!!