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Special Forums UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers Mac Osx.2 Post 29583 by LivinFree on Tuesday 8th of October 2002 10:51:43 PM

10-08-2002

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Well, the stability is very high, but that's most likely bcause the hardware/software/firmware is all integrated to work well together. This is the opposite of Intel-based hardware, in which the hardware and software are made by many different people.

As for hardware supoprt, OSX only runs on Apple hardware. The Unix core, Darwin, is open source, and thus has actually already been ported to x86 hardware, but the higher-level OS, and much of the usable operating system is proprietary, so that will most likely never run on anything else (at least not in a supported fashion). Then again, since it's list of hardware is so much smaller than *BSD or GNU/Linux, it pretty much installs itself, configures itself, etc...

I haven't worked with the printers very much on it, but if it's like anything else, it should work fine! So far, anything with a USB or FireWire interface runs great - automagically! I think the underlying code is based on CUPS for printing.

It really is a far stretch from any other Unix I've ever seen, though, but if you decide you want to cripple your box with the horrible beast called X, you can do that. If you want to install Open Office, you can. As for already-installed software, it's got Samba, can do NFS, ssh, r*.... lot's o' goodies.

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sdl_videoinfo

SDL_VideoInfo(3)						 SDL API Reference						  SDL_VideoInfo(3)

NAME

       SDL_VideoInfo - Video Target information

STRUCTURE DEFINITION

       typedef struct{
	 Uint32 hw_available:1;
	 Uint32 wm_available:1;
	 Uint32 blit_hw:1;
	 Uint32 blit_hw_CC:1;
	 Uint32 blit_hw_A:1;
	 Uint32 blit_sw:1;
	 Uint32 blit_sw_CC:1;
	 Uint32 blit_sw_A:1;
	 Uint32 blit_fill;
	 Uint32 video_mem;
	 SDL_PixelFormat *vfmt;
       } SDL_VideoInfo;

STRUCTURE DATA

       hw_available	   Is it possible to create hardware surfaces?

       wm_available	   Is there a window manager available

       blit_hw		   Are hardware to hardware blits accelerated?

       blit_hw_CC	   Are hardware to hardware colorkey blits accelerated?

       blit_hw_A	   Are hardware to hardware alpha blits accelerated?

       blit_sw		   Are software to hardware blits accelerated?

       blit_sw_CC	   Are software to hardware colorkey blits accelerated?

       blit_sw_A	   Are software to hardware alpha blits accelerated?

       blit_fill	   Are color fills accelerated?

       video_mem	   Total amount of video memory in Kilobytes

       vfmt		   Pixel format of the video device

DESCRIPTION

       This  (read-only)  structure is returned by SDL_GetVideoInfo. It contains information on either the 'best' available mode (if called before
       SDL_SetVideoMode) or the current video mode.

SEE ALSO

       SDL_PixelFormat, SDL_GetVideoInfo

SDL
							      Tue 11 Sep 2001, 23:01						  SDL_VideoInfo(3)