Linked by Jon Atkinson on Tue 20th May 2003 18:14 UTC
I entered the world of Apple hardware about 3 months ago now, with a second-hand iBook2. It was a 500mHz, 256mb, ATI Rage 128 model, with a standard CD-Rom drive. I spent the first few days trying to tweak Mac OS X to my liking, then a few further weeks installing and learning to use the applications I thought I'd need. Chimera, BBEdit, the developer tools, even the Fink X server so I could use Gaim.
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I am a coder, and I love Mac OS X. I am running the exact same configurations, and for the life of me, I can't see why you were having such a hard time. I don't have the visual refresh problems that your talking about, if you mean the whole window bluring out everything else as your scroll or resize. It has never happened to me, and yes I am a Unix User. I have X11, Fink, and all of the window managers loaded up, but primarily let the X11 Aqua interface be used. Personally, I think you wrote this article just for the attention. YDL 3.0 has a glitch in the installer when running on your configuration that I have yet to get around, and am tired of messing with personally. Once you put in disk 3, the entire anaconda installer freaks out and tells you to debug it, so I just restart. I was able to install YDL 3.0 with very very very minimal installation, of like gnome only GUI, and Abiword I believe, and that was the only way I was able to avoid the damn glitch. YDL sucks, I can do everything just as fast through Fink, and X11. Your ignorance amuses me.