5 Sep
2001
5 Sep
'01
10:08
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Roger Whittaker wrote:
As for the Mac - if you run Mac OS X then you're already running an X server, since Mac OS X is a UNIX variant. You can get Linux distributions for PPC Macs if you want to use them *only* as X servers (i.e. thin client terminals) - for example, Mandrake Linux 8.0 has now been released for PPC. I don't think that's exactly right: if I'm not mistaken Mac OS X has its own graphics system, but you can run X on it.
You're probably right; I haven't used or studied Mac OS X - I just assumed that since it was based on UNIX it would use X-Windows. I do know that XFree86 can be run on top of Mac OS X, however. Michael