Re: MacOS X (was Re: What *is* Gnome/KDE?)
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> Aren't you running things together here? Unix does not equal X.
> X-Windows is a completely different animal than "Unix". It's a
> graphical system that is often associated with Unix, but not
> necessarily unique to Unix. Certainly you can buy commercial X-Windows
> implementations for Windows. I think X-Free86 even has a Windows
> implementation?
Nope. Unix-type systems and OS/2. It's unfortunate too; most Windows X11
servers seem to mess up wrt font handling (ie The GIMP doesn't work with
most of 'em, even with a font server running on a Linux system).
> My understanding was that MacOS X was a full X-windows implementation
> for MacOS.
>
> Am I wrong in this?
As far as I can tell, yes. MacOS X doesn't have X11. There is, however,
and effort to port XFree over to MacOS X.
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Phil Brutsche pbrutsch@creighton.edu
"There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the
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