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20030108 Wednesday January 08, 2003

Apple's X11 So now that Apple has released a beta of it's X11 X Window System, I have a question for you? Do you use this? I downloaded and installed XDarwin, but have never used it (similar experience to OpenOffice. What can I do with X11? Can I run Gnome using X11? Do I have a use for it at all? Posted in Mac OS X at Jan 08 2003, 08:43:27 AM MST 1 Comment

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My guess is that you have yet to discover Fink! <http://fink.sourceforge.net/> The key point I'd make is that Mac OS X is Unix, and the defacto standard windowing system for Unix is X11. There are thousands of X apps out there. No, they're not "lickably beautiful" like Mac apps are... But some of them are useful nonetheless! :-) Personally, I most use X11 on OS X as a server for X11 forwarding via SSH. Without this my PowerBook would be much less useful to me, as I'd have to have a Linux or (gasp!) Windows machine on my desk exclusively for that purpose. I do have a number of X apps installed "locally", like Ethereal and Emacs, but of course I prefer native apps when available. :-)

Posted by Kaelin Colclasure on January 17, 2003 at 07:20 PM MST #

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