Re: best OS for using gnustep on tiBook?

[Pascal Bourguignon]

> From: "Jim McLoughlin" <jimmcloughlin@earthlink.net>
> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 11:45:16 -0700
> 
> Hi folks
> 
> I've been playing around with gnustep in windowmaker on freebsd, lurking
> here for a while.  Just ordered a powerbook as I'm itching to use Mac OSX,
> but would also like to create a seprate partition to continue working in
> windowmaker/gnustep.  Ideally this will allow me to design any
> cocoa/objective C work so that I maximize reuse on both platforms
> (separating foundation vs. GUI code).
> 
> I assume other folks are tryign this kind of dual setup on the Mac platform,
> so what OS do you recommend?  I'm trying to decide between:
> 
> Debian
> Yellow Dog Linux
> Darwin
> 
> Which do you guys recommend?  Any links to how-tos on this kind of setup
> greatly appreciated...

I've no practical experience of  Linux on power-pc, but from what I've
read, I'd try first Yellow Dog Linux, to have something running.

I'm not sure you'd even have  all the needed drivers for Darwin to run
(or  at least to  boot) on  a power-pc  Macintosh...  However,  if the
driver situation of Darwin evolved  favorably (both on power-pc and on
intel&amd),  this  would  be  a  nice system  integrating  Darwin  and
GNUstep.



By the way, I've go a question about the TiBook.  I've been hesitating
for 8 months about buying a top-notch TiBook configuration for MacOSX,
but the $6000 price  tag, vs the $2500 at most it  would cost to build
an  "equivalent" PC  laptop  with GNUstep/Linux  or  FreeBSD makes  me
wonder  if it  really is  worth the  cost.  What  do you  think? (Even
discounting  the expected culture  shock for  someone coming  from the
NeXT GUI). 

Alternatively, what are the  performance of other TiBooks like? (other
than the top-notch, full-loaded, fastest configuration).



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