Apple ports every version of mac os X to the PC...its called makklar or something like that. its never released tho.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,496249,00.asp dated 08/30/02

Late post.

The boss on my ex job picked up a Gateway 1.5 gig machine with a gig of ram. I have a G3 500 beige desktop. My machine is easily twice as fast in real time. Where do people get the idea that wintell is faster than mac? The two machines arnt even close in ghz or ram?! What a myth.

MacTecTom

Hello,

Speed is a function of OS overhead, CPU power, and motherboard speed. Too many people think that raw MHz is the sole power of how fast a computer operates, and that is just not the case. Also, do not forget to factor the computer's subsystems.... for example, SCSI devices do not need much CPU attention as IDE devices do... thus that processing is offloaded from the main CPU.

As for the Free86 idea, I think that is great! Us OS X users can compile things together from sourceforge and other sources, and have a lot less porting stress. I like the fact I can run OpenOffice 1.1 and get further and further from Microsoft dominated software, and exposures to weakness. I do not see your average Mac User reaching out for the Free86 environment though... the look and feel is much different, and all of the typical preference files will be out of whack.

As for Free86 making a dent against Microsoft, perhaps a little bit. The techies are sure to notice, but I think that dogmatic college programs, and people in seduction with Microsoft rebates, will prevail.

Nice topic.

Christian

right, but not quite. linux software has to be in source code, to compile it into BSD on the fly. Hey try FINK. and for these all to work you have to install the developer tools that came with your original OSX.