OT: OS/X - X11

[Doc Shipley]

John Allain wrote:
> I attended a presentation at AppleNYC last night to oogle all
> the neat hardware and hear about the Software but I failed to
> ask this question:
>    Can you take an X11 application compiled for PPC/linux or
>     /freeBSD and run it on the Mac?
> 
> Think they said that their OS was Posix compliant but apps
> were'nt portable To other platforms.  But From?

   Most anything that'll build on FreeBSD will build for OSX.  Check out 
Xcode, Apple's GCC-based development environment, the "Fink" project, 
and the Apple OSX Download pages.

   IMO the X11 implementation isn't perfect, but then I guess it never 
is....  Considering that X11 is sharing the screen with an entirely 
different graphics subsystem, it's _very_ impressive.


	Doc