site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com User-agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Macintosh/20051201) BTW: tried x11-users@ yet? :-) -- Graham Lee UNIX Systems Manager, Oxford Physics Practical Course http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wadh1342 _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... On 28/2/06 18:00, Jack Howarth wrote: Can anyone answer the following question. I am considering purchasing a Macintel machine and have serious concerns about the compatibility of Rosetta with X11 unix binaries compiled for the ppc. Assuming the binaries are built for the G4, should prepackaged software like Chimera, Sparky, etc. run on a Macintel machine under X11.app? Or will all X11 unix programs have to be rebuilt for Macintel? Oh, if anyone is interested in testing this the software I refer to is available at... I can't speak for *all* software, but I've tried an amount of software including commercial X11 packages and nothing so far hasn't worked, if you see what I mean. As always, the proof of the pudding... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com