06.05.06
Wow.
Came accross a few videos like this. Basically they are running every OS they can on their Mac and quickly, yet beautifully, switching between them. It uses something called “Parallels”, which I haven’t found much on yet. Some guys blog claims that on the dual core Macs it uses one core for, say, Windows and the other for Mac OS. So it is the fastest and most useable virtual machine setup he’s ever tried. I was going to try out bootcamp, but I might just got this route instead. I will still need Windows for the occasional this and that, like 3DVista. I’ll always keep my gaming rig Windows, for obvious reasons, but to be able to switch to Windows without switching boxes or rebooting is just dreamy.
Matt said,
June 6, 2006 at 11:37 am
Reminds me of Xgl, except without the OS switching.
Soabirw said,
June 6, 2006 at 11:53 am
I remember watching the video for that a short while ago. Very pretty effects, many of which came from Mac OS. Which is one reason I am wanting to try it so much, but not the main. With this Parallels I might get the latest Ubuntu or Suse going that support the Xgl and do my own perty comparisons. Maybe having X use more of the video card will help speed it up a bit too. Last time I used Linux as a workstation (8 or so months ago), it was getting pretty sluggish. All their fancy stuff was just using more and more CPU.
Soabirw said,
June 6, 2006 at 1:26 pm
Been reading that Wiki for a bit. Has all sorts of neat links to prettyness. Checking out the Sun project, “Looking Glass” now. Even has a LiveCD version so you don’t have to hose anything. Love the name too. Wiki even talked about how all this pretty stuff is in Mac OS 10, but is off by default. I’ll definitely be looking into how to turn it on. I’ll risk stability for eye candy.