Re: Is there any reason to use X11 0.3?
Re: Is there any reason to use X11 0.3?
- Subject: Re: Is there any reason to use X11 0.3?
- From: Eugene Lee <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 04:34:14 -0600
- Mail-followup-to: email@hidden
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 09:18:35PM +1200, Jonathan Mckeown wrote:
:
: On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 08:09 PM, Eugene Lee wrote:
: >
: >Besides, people do distinguish between the two implementations by
: >calling them either X11 or XonX.
:
: But that's my point, they should not do that. Apple's X server and XonX
: are both 'X11'.
Actually, they are all based on the XFree86 implementation, Version 11
Release 6. Apple's X11.app is still on XFree86 4.2.1 (X11R6.3) while
the latest XonX supports XFree86 4.3.0 (X11R6.6).
: The only reason Apple call their bundle 'X11.app' is
: because it is an X11 server, not because they wanted to call their
: product 'X11'.
Apple can call it anything. This opinion is not only guesswork, but it
is tangental and irrelevant.
: >I've played with the X Window System
: >for over a decade, and I've never heard of the term "X11" to refer to
: >the X Window System until Apple's implementation came out.
:
: You're either a troll or you have no idea what you're talking about. Go
: to http://www.x.org/ and do some reading, you'll find the term 'X11'
: used rather a lot.
Most of us, in the day, never called it "X11". We said "X Window System"
sometimes, "X Windows" more often (before Windoze 3.x existed), and other
times just "X". That's just my experience.
: As I've already said, X11 refers to version 11 of
: the X Window System (which existed long before Apple's version of it
: did). The precise current version is X11R6.6.
On this list, when most people mention "X11", they are referring to
Apple's "X11 on Mac OS X". If people discuss other X implementations,
they will say so. Perhaps it made sense for the X Consortium to declare
that "X11" == "X Window System, Version 11". But in the context of this
list, I think the point is at best moot.
--
Eugene Lee
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