Subject: Re: YDL vs. OS X
From: Vanja Bucic (vanjab@UDel.Edu)
Date: Sun Mar 11 2001 - 12:09:36 MST
I am running XFree86 under MacOSX and it runs great.
on 3/11/01 1:41 PM, Jason Moore at jsmoore@brain.uccs.edu wrote:
> There's a sourceforge project called XonX that's getting XFree86 to run along
> side the Aqua GUI stuff so that you can run X Windows programs. But there is
> some problems with porting linux apps to OS X that I've heard, like problems
> with dynamic linking and such. But I'm sure there's somebody out there working
> on that.
>
> Anyone else sick of the letter 'X'?
>
> - Jason
>
> On Sunday, March 11, 2001, at 10:32 AM, Paul J. Lucas wrote:
>
> On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Peter J Muhlberger wrote:
>
>> I was just wondering whether anyone knows how YDL stacks up against OS X.
>
> First, it's Linux vs. OS X; YDL is just a repackaging of Redhat
> Linux.
>
>> I'm thinking of getting X when it comes out, and am under the impression X is
>> a unix OS.
>
> It is based on Unix, yes.
>
>> What I don't know is whether X would allow loading standard linux programs &
>> desktops.
>
> OS X, despite its name, does not have an X Windows server, so
> you can't run anything GUI-based.
>
>> I need to be able to program in Java / JSP for Tomcat / Apache using Forte as
>> an IDE, & I like using KDE desktop. Does anyone know whether OS X's unix
>> core would allow running these programs?
>
> You probably can run anything that doesn't use a GUI. A friend
> who works at apple has run Apache under it.
>
> - Paul
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