I don´t see any good reason for a X zone here. There are hundrets of possibilities out there to talk about X. But - be honest - from the beginning of X onward, Apple tried to make 9-users live harder. How does Cameron Kaiser say it: "Apple wants us to recycle our perfectly good classic Macs and stick us on the soulless consumer treadmill."
And the most annoying thing is we are takling about 2 completely different Operating Systems. As different as Windows and Linux. For Mac OS 9 users it is totally hard to find informations for their OS, and to differ them from X informations/programs/etc. . If people now will permanently have to look if the information/posting is for X or for 9 here as well, it may become really uninterresting, as long as you are not a daily user of both systems. The snow in this forum is already quite much, and it just will become harder when we include a totally different OS.
The other problem is, the more X informations will appeare here, the more assumed easyer solutions with X will be posted. Like IIO above is talking about X for rar and mp4. Why? Both are working well with Mac OS 9 (macrar, and QT mp4). So a kind of "assimilation force" will appeare.
And really, I had enough silly comments the last 10 years in forums around the world, telling for every problem with 9; "take X". All the lies what 9 cannot do, where you allegedly need X for, ...
And it will not stop with X and PPC, already here in this thread we can read Intel is better in some cases, so the "assimilation force" will even become bigger, and there are no good reasons to talk about X for PPC and not for Intel, ...
And finally, I would be interrested about how the statement "Those days are over. OSX talk can't damage our OS9 status" evolved. Was there any internal discussion, some experiances you made the last year, any public talk about it that I didn´t get? Because it is exactly what I would expect. And when you once feared it like I do now, it would be totally interresting why this times should have changed.
And the most annoying thing is we are takling about 2 completely different Operating Systems. As different as Windows and Linux. For Mac OS 9 users it is totally hard to find informations for their OS, and to differ them from X informations/programs/etc. . If people now will permanently have to look if the information/posting is for X or for 9 here as well, it may become really uninterresting, as long as you are not a daily user of both systems. The snow in this forum is already quite much, and it just will become harder when we include a totally different OS.
The other problem is, the more X informations will appeare here, the more assumed easyer solutions with X will be posted. Like IIO above is talking about X for rar and mp4. Why? Both are working well with Mac OS 9 (macrar, and QT mp4). So a kind of "assimilation force" will appeare.
And really, I had enough silly comments the last 10 years in forums around the world, telling for every problem with 9; "take X". All the lies what 9 cannot do, where you allegedly need X for, ...
And it will not stop with X and PPC, already here in this thread we can read Intel is better in some cases, so the "assimilation force" will even become bigger, and there are no good reasons to talk about X for PPC and not for Intel, ...
And finally, I would be interrested about how the statement "Those days are over. OSX talk can't damage our OS9 status" evolved. Was there any internal discussion, some experiances you made the last year, any public talk about it that I didn´t get? Because it is exactly what I would expect. And when you once feared it like I do now, it would be totally interresting why this times should have changed.