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Apple Explains How to Run X11 on Mac OS X

Posted by michael on from the having-it-your-way dept.

tuc writes "In this document posted on its Developer Connection, Apple explains how to install X11R6 on Mac OS X, details of the default quartz-wm window manager, how to compile X11 code on Mac OS X, how to install OpenOffice, and the like."

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  1. The real question by product+byproduct · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do they pronounce it 10-11?

    1. Re:The real question by Captoo · · Score: 5, Funny

      Is Apple going II use Roman numerals IV OS XI? By the way, If I were a Roman script kiddie, I'd be lIIIIIIt. :-)

    2. Re:The real question by DeusExLibris · · Score: 2, Funny

      No - it is pronounced "ex els". Microsoft's attorneys have already been in contact with them regarding trademark infringment.

    3. Re:The real question by Minstrel+Boy · · Score: 5, Funny
      Yes, and OS X does come with the vi editor, as well. But you have to pronounce it "six". ;)

      KeS

    4. Re:The real question by fm6 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Blasphemy! Everybody knows it's ][, not II!

    5. Re:The real question by MemoryAid · · Score: 2, Funny
      The beginning of the end was the Apple //gs

      You let me know when the end of the end gets here, okay?

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  2. X on windows by datadriven · · Score: 3, Funny

    It won't be long before windows does this too...ow wait.

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  3. Re:Step 1: Double click X11.app by Alien+Being · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, but which mouse button do I use? Oh, never mind.

  4. Re:unix? by stupidfoo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Horrible makefiles haunt my dreams. I've had nightmares about them...

  5. Re:FINK by eeg3 · · Score: 3, Funny

    There's an entire part on using Fink to do it. RTFA, plzkthx.

  6. Re:atleast its good to see.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Nice poem, asshole.

    Let my browser work,
    It can handle line-breaks fine,
    Quit being a 'tard.

  7. Re:atleast its good to see.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hi, this post is about X11, REAL X11. This post is awesome. X11 is cool; and by cool, I mean totally sweet.

    Facts:
    1. X11 is a network transparent graphics system
    2. X11 displays things ALL the time
    3. The purpose of X11 is to flip out and forward applications

  8. Re:XFree86? Why not X.org? by generic-man · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why hasn't Apple blindly followed everyone else's decision to change X servers?

    Because they Think Different (tm), of course. :)

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  9. Woo by nomadic · · Score: 3, Funny

    Great, I was just thinking the other day, "Ok, having UNIX underpinnings is great, but I miss the clunky, inefficient, bloated, ugly and outdated graphical interface that I used to have with linux and solaris."

  10. Re:For the security guys by circusboy · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm rather dissappointed, a sentence with the words "harder" and "penetration tester" in it and mine is the first comment about it?

    I suppose it is a friday night...

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  11. great recruitment method by SuperBanana · · Score: 2, Funny
    If you want OpenOffice on OS X, help make one of the NATIVE ports more popular by using it

    Bah, silly developer. This is good- any true MacOS X developer who actually tries out OpenOffice under X11 will, after his or her face has stopped twitching enough that they can see again, look for some alternative and find NeoOffice and start helping purely out of motivation to let OpenOffice under X11 die a fast death :-)

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