[TriLUG] OT: Mac OS X list?

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 12:09, al johson wrote:
> Cool!!
> 
> Maybe you can answer the gnawing question several of my friends in the OSX
> community have. As you're no doubt aware at present to run anything other
> than non-GUI UNIX software from the Terminal on OSX, some version of
> X-windows has to be installed, which creates a situation where you would
> have TWO GUI's installed (the Mac's and X-Windows). Now the 64 thousand
> dollar question appears to be this: Can we ever expect Linux software which
> uses KDE or Gnome to install on an OSX machine without X-windows being
> installed sometime in the future??

Al,

I'm not sure what you're asking for.  KDE and Gnome software, is X
software, so by definition it uses X Windows.  Asking it not to use X
Windows is kind of like asking Netscape to run on a text console.  It's
just not possible and there's no reason FOR it to be possible.  But of
course software can be re-written to use Mac OSX native GUI.  That's a
lot of work, which is why it makes more sense to port XFree86 to MacOS
X, and then get the X programs to work in this environment, which is
what Fink is doing.

If you want to discuss these issues further, please consider joining the
hardcider list -- http://www.hardcider.org/mailman/listinfo/hardcider/
-- it's not off-topic there.

--Jeremy