[TriLUG] Mac OS X is UNIX?

[John Franklin]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 04:54:43PM -0500, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 16:36, gregbrown at mindspring.com wrote:
> > Is anyone out there running Mac OS X?  If so can you redirect your
> > UNIX displays back to your Mac without 3rd party software?  Can you
> 
> Mac OSX is running unix, but not X.  So, the answer to that is no.

It is possible to run X apps under Aqua.  The XFree86 server works. From
http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/RELNOTES2.html#8: "On Mac OS X, a new
rootless mode is added to the XDarwin X server. This allows X clients to
display windows on the Aqua desktop."

jf
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