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OroborOSX: XDarwin Aqua-Like Window Manager

Posted by timothy on from the eyes-bulge-out-of-your-head dept.

UnanimousCoward writes: "I've just downloaded OroborOSX, "A modified Oroborus-based X11 window manager for use with XFree86 and XDarwin on Mac OS X." It's truly a wm worthy of standing side-by-side with Aqua in rootless mode. Here are some screenshots from Jonathan Tyzack (I'm too lazy to create my own, but my experience is the same). Using MacGimp under OroborOSX is awesome ..." The original Oroborus looks interesting as well; the original author has discontinued work on Oroborus, but it looks like the code has found a nice new application.

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  1. Re:BSD? by barneyfoo · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    OSX (as in the graphical styling) is based on MacOS/NeXT GUI. It sits on top of Darwin which could was itself based on BSD. Alot of good osx is doing for the bsd community anyway.. heh heh. Gee we get a binary only graphical shell for a heavily (even absurdly?) modified, proprietary BSD derivative! CHEER!.....

    Am I the only one who doesn't understand this kind of cheer leading?