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Subject: Re: newcommer
From: Dominic Dunlop <email@hidden>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:34:00 +0200

On Friday, Aug 22, 2003, at 11:07 Europe/Brussels, Isabelle Marie Collas wrote:

Please, excuse my stupid question, but what is X11 for?

Hmmm. Not a stupid question, but introductory texts are difficult to find: X Window is sufficiently ancient that we're all supposed to know what it's for by now. But how about http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-5065494.html (in French)?

Until UNIX-based Mac OS X came along, if you bought a UNIX implementation (Solaris, Linux, AIX ...) the windowing system was X Window. Consequently, all UNIX software that needed windowing facilities used X Window. If you want to port that software to Mac OS X, you can either rewrite it to use Mac OS X's proprietary Quartz windowing system -- a task that, for example, the OpenOffice developers have recently said will take them until 2006 (see http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/timeline.html) -- or you can install X Window client libraries and an X Window server on Mac OS X, and (usually) get a working application simply by rebuilding from the source code. This list is for people who have taken the second route, either using Apple's own X port (currently in beta, but to be a part of the forthcoming Panther release of Mac OS X) or the freely-available XFree-86 distribution. -- Dominic Dunlop _______________________________________________ x11-users mailing list | email@hidden Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/x11-users X11 for Mac OS X FAQ: http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1232.html Report issues, request features, feedback: http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.

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