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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. unix? by Second_Infinity · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Isn't it based on UNIX nowadays anyway?

  2. Excellent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Well what else is there to say?

  3. Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Fuck me, Apple embraces open source... news of the year, no minute, no second, no, oh wait

    1. Re:Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

      Christ, who's gone crazy with the "Redundant" mods today?

      HEY ASSHOLE, look up the word. You keep using it, it doesn't mean what you apparently think it means.

      The parent is Offtopic, not Redundant. Moron.

      (And this is Flamebait, Offtopic or Troll, your choice. You might also try a piquant Overrated.)