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Apple Posts Their X11 Source

Posted by pudge on from the here-an-x-there-an-x-everywhere-an-x-x dept.

fdiv_bug writes "This happened a day or two ago, but it slipped my mind to report it. Looks like Apple has released the source code to their X11 implementation for Mac OS X." Also check out more downloads at OpenDarwin.org.

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  1. This didn't happen a few days ago... by eyez · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't know what the submitter has been smoking, but this did /NOT/ happen a few days ago.

    I remember downloading it a couple weeks ago. It's been available for download since they released their X11 betas.

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  2. Re:does this include source for quartz-wm? by babbage · · Score: 4, Informative

    On Apple's X11 list, it has been stated that X11.app's QuartzWM is going to remain closed-source and proprietary. That's all their code and they're going to keep it to themselves, as is their right. On the other hand, the extensions made to the xfree86 codebase have been offered back to the community under the same licensing terms as the rest of that project.

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  3. Re:Join us now and share the nostelga by Golias · · Score: 3, Informative
    The source code would be nice, but at least they offer fully compiled binaries of MacOS 7.5.3 and older for free to anybody who wants to download it.

    (Actually, IIRC, they have bumped their free "abandonware" OS list to everything up to 8.1 now, but I could be mistaken about that.)

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  4. Re:Join us now and share the nostelga by Golias · · Score: 3, Informative
    Oh, by the way.... Once you've downloaded the compiled older version of MacOS, you can view and edit all of the system resources with ResEdit, and other free tools are out there for further hacking the MacOS.

    So, unless you are planning on writing a derived OS and calling it Linmac or something, there's really not a whole lot of reason why anybody would want the source of System 7.

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  5. Re:APPLE IS DYING by Alex+Thorpe · · Score: 3, Informative

    I stopped using the floppy drive years before Apple dumped them, aside from reinstalling old games. I also haven't owned a burner since '99, and don't really have a use for one. I just have zero need of removable media, and nowadays I have DSL and a 100MB iDisk, so I can send some pretty big files to anyone in the world, and even let others upload to it. I've a 5GB iPod, too, so there's no reason to burn music CD's.

    I can't even recall the last time I booted off a CD. If the worst happens to my OS X partition, my OS 9 partition starts up instead, and I can do repairs from there. This happened to me once last year.

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  6. Re:Damn Apple... by henele · · Score: 3, Informative
    At The Apple Store when you buy an XServe (which comes with an unlimited user lincense for OS X) you can buy a $999 "Mac OS X Server Maintenance Program" which sounds like it would of solved your problem to some degree...

    "Mac OS X Server Maintenance is a 3 Year, non-cancelable agreement during which you will receive every major upgrade release to Mac OS X Server."