19 Nov
2004
19 Nov
'04
3:56 a.m.
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.
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