Why I love OS X (you gotta see this!!!!!)

[Soapvox]

I think today I can be called a power user!
Check out these screenshots, the first make sure to scroll all they way to the right, the second is of all the processes running, I had more apps, but had to get back to work so.... also the second is doctored so you don't see who is running the processes. I will list the apps I launched in my next post (BTW just for clarity I am a developer, so I am running a few betas legitimately)

link 1: http://mytwilightgarden.com/aeonflux.jpg
link 2: http://mytwilightgarden.com/processes.gif

PS Check out Thom Yorke on the right, that is actually a wonderful shot!

[Soapvox]

This is on a 400mghz Ti Powerbook with 384 megs of ram, and surprisingly enough, ran pretty decently:[list=1][*]Netscape 6.1 Preview Release[*]Entourage (classic)[*]Terminal[*]UltraDev (classic)[*]BBedit 6.12[*]Fireworks (classic)[*]Calculator[*]Stuffit Expander 6.5[*]DropZip 6.5[*]Transmit 1.7b1[*]Freehand 10 (or is it X?)[*]Word X Preview[*]Excel (classic)[*]Illustrator 9 (classic)[*]Photoshop 6 (classic)[*]iTunes 10.1[*]Now Up to Date 4.1 beta[*]Mow Contact 4.1 beta[*]Explorer 5.1[*]Fire 0.27b[*]Audion 2.6[*]Suitcase X beta[*]DMG Maker 1.16[*]X Darwin 1.3a[*]--- Gimp[*]--- Lynx[*]--- Xterm[*]--- Clock[*]--- Windowmaker[*]Acrobat 5[*]Sherlock2[*]CPU Monitor[*]Disk Copy[*]Print Center[*]Clock[*]TextEdit[*]iMovie2[*]DVD Player[*]Keycaps[*]Console[*]Network Utility[*]Grab[*]Digital Color Meter[*]Process Viewer[*]Stickies[*]Quicktime[*]Preview[*]ColorSynch Utilitie[/list=1]
Lets see windows do that, that doesn't include daemons running, see the second screen shot for all

[chemistry_geek]

How do you get XDarwin to run on OS X. I have the instalation disk for MacGIMP from MacGIMP.com and it ceased working when I upgraded to 10.1. I read somewhere that it will still work, I just hae to type something in teh terminal but I don't know what it's supposed to be. If this is true, could you help me get GIMP running again? Also, How did you get the NeXT interface, XTerm, the paper clip in the box installed on your system? I am interested in getting some XWindows/UNIX software running on OS X.

chemistry_geek

[LordOphidian]

The paper clip is the clip from WIndowMaker, a window manager that does a damn good job of simulating NeXTStep.

[Soapvox]

I used fink for the basics http://fink.sourceforge.net/

I used the new version of xdarwin, you can get it here with instructions: http://mrcla.com/XonX/

then went to http://macosx.forked.net/ for gimp and window maker

[AdmiralAK]

is Xdarwin running afterstep ?

[swizcore]

OK, I have 1.5g of ram and you will notice in this screenshot that my terminal shows a lowly 45m of free memory with every app that I have installed open. All the apps opened in less than 40 seconds with less than 225 pageouts during the whole launch process and continuing to work with all the apps opened produced no more pageouts!!!! OSX is the Whip OS!

[jarinteractive]

Originally posted by chemistry_geek
How do you get XDarwin to run on OS X. I have the instalation disk for MacGIMP from MacGIMP.com and it ceased working when I upgraded to 10.1. I read somewhere that it will still work, I just hae to type something in teh terminal but I don't know what it's supposed to be. If this is true, could you help me get GIMP running again? Also, How did you get the NeXT interface, XTerm, the paper clip in the box installed on your system? I am interested in getting some XWindows/UNIX software running on OS X.

chemistry_geek

If you had it running before, all you need to do is upgrade XDarwin to 1.0a3.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xonx

-JARinteractive