Linux users who've used OS X

[Richard Lotz]

On Monday, Dec 2, 2002, at 14:12 US/Pacific, David Talkington wrote:

> I find that I minimize those compromises and get the best of both 
> worlds
> by running XDarwin, powered by Enlightenment, in my OS X session; by
> ditching the more-form-than-function Mac mouse in favor of a Logitech 
> USB
> trackball (which works out of the box with no hassle); and by 
> tunneling my
> X apps from a Linux host that mounts the same home directory. Windows
> controlled by Enlightenment respect a wider variety of mouse inputs 
> than
> do Aqua windows, I get back my multiple desktops, and I can run any
> application I need, while running heavy stuff on the faster Linux host 
> to
> avoid challenging the Apple processor. That's about as flexible and
> powerful a desktop as one could ask for!
>
> For those who want tighter integration with Aqua, try the spiffy 
> OroborOSX
> (http://oroborosx.sourceforge.net/).

Yeah, I am using oroborosx, and I find it nice for things like ethereal 
and mtr and gvim and such but I really do like the look of Aqua.  So 
I've been trying to use as many native apps as possible.  So I've been 
using things like Chimera for browsing and Fire for my IM client 
(supports GPG and Jabber).  Hell, I'm even using Mail.App now that 
there is a GPGMail plug in and I've found out how to make it support 
multiple from addresses (though a bit kludgy).

-richard

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