19 Nov
2004
19 Nov
'04
6:55 a.m.
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?
I've seen a few X11 crashes in my day but I'll still give 'em
a chance.
I would think there is a good chance. There is an X11 setup for OS X. You
can download it from various places online, or it comes with OS X.3 (but
I don't believe it is part of the default install, so you have to choose
to install it).
I know OpenOffice was ported to OS X for use with X11. I just don't know
how much was involved beyond a recompile.
-chris
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