Matt's answer was dead on, but probably not what you were looking for. X11 is the underlying system that drives the GUI of pretty much all *nix applications that use a windowing environment, including the various desktop environments (like KDE and GNOME).
With X11 support on the Mac, combined with it's *nix underpinnings, you basically have the ability to run any major *nix product. Without X, you'd be limited to console apps (emacs, pine, lynx) and/or daemons (apache, tomcat, mysql). barneyb --- Barney Boisvert, Senior Development Engineer AudienceCentral [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice : 360.756.8080 x12 fax : 360.647.5351 www.audiencecentral.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan O'Keefe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 6:24 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: MAC & Linux laptops (was about blue dragon.) > > > Not to sound like a MAC virgin, but x11 apps? What is that? > > One of my Sony laptops is off to be repaired once again and I was > thinking about getting either a MAC or a laptop with Linux on it. Maybe > one of those MAC laptops with the huge wide screen. > > Dan > =================== Previous Message Below =================== > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Barney Boisvert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 7:38 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: about blue dragon. > > > They don't crash. Excepting to install some updates last night, I've > had it on with DW and various other programs open for weeks. My win2k > office workstation, on the other hand, requires me to restart > dreamweaver at least once a day, and reboot once a week. Also, my > production servers are all *nix, so I don't have to deal with any of the > potential problems moving code from windows dev machines to *nix > production. Finally, you can run all the X11 apps you know and love > right on the desktop intermixed with your other OSX apps. And if you're > still hooked to windows, you can run emulation software or a terminal > services client and easily get your MS fix. > > barneyb > > --- > Barney Boisvert, Senior Development Engineer > AudienceCentral > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > voice : 360.756.8080 x12 > fax : 360.647.5351 > > www.audiencecentral.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dan O'Keefe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 4:22 PM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: RE: about blue dragon. > > > > > > >PowerBooks are awesome development machines! > > > > >Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ > > > > What advantages do you think they have over WIN based. What about > > homesite and the other MX product line? > > > > Dan > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com
