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MacOSX and X11

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the one-step-closer-to-the-gimp dept.

kono was among the hoards of folks who noted that Tenon is gonna be releasing a tightly integrated X11 Server for MacOS X, which should greatly increase the potential for those of us hoping have a desktop that we could conceivably share with our graphic designer MacOS fanatic girlfriends.

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  1. Ask your graphic-designer girlfriends by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5

    to suggest new color for this page.

  2. Re:Huh? Please explain by Golias · · Score: 5
    This is like putting a Yugo engine in a Ferrari.

    Or like putting an old Beetle body on a VW Gulf. Oh, wait... they're doing that.

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  3. Behind every Linux Geek... by t0upsie · · Score: 5

    we could conceivably share with our graphic designer MacOS fanatic girlfriends.

    Behind every Linux Geek, is a smarter Girlfriend that uses MacOS...

    See ya at Macworld NYC!!!

  4. The proper order is read, then write! by isaac · · Score: 5
    The interesting thing about MacOS X was that it was the power of Unix "under the hood" with the (supposed) power of the MacOS GUI on top. If you remove the Mac GUI and replace it with X, don't you end up with just plain BSD (with non-standard config files)

    I'd normally write this off as a troll, but I'm feeling noisy today.

    The whole point of *TENON* (not Apple, a 3rd party developer) writing this X server/wm/widget set is that it allows an easy way to display X apps and even have them integrate as smoothly as possible into the OS X look-and-feel. This means rootless display where the X clients coexist with the Quartz (display PDF) desktop and windows.

    A similar product was popular under NEXTSTEP (and it was actually called Co-Xist), which allowed rootless display of X clients atop the NeXT display-postscript system.

    -Isaac

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  5. mouthfull by patreides · · Score: 5

    Pay attention here. The new X Desktop is pronounced "X" as in "X marks
    the spot." But the X in Mac OS X is pronounced "10." Got that? Okay, X
    Desktop will purportedly not only allow remote X applications to be
    displayed on the Mac OS X desktop, but will also include complete set of X
    tools and libraries to support local execution of X applications and X games
    on OS X. Extending Mac OS X with an X Window porting environment
    will enable high-resolution 3D-modeling and animation, graphical
    visualization and image rendering applications to be built directly on Mac
    OS X, says Holmgren.

    Try reading that aloud, and getting all the X's right as appropriate :-)

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