> How is it that native Aqua app's don't launch X11/Xterm before running, and > GNU/Linux based X11 apps which have been ported do ?
:) That's just a matter of configuration. You can change that behavior in the .xinitrc. For more details you can read a recent blog post [1] I made about how to configure your OS X to behave in a more Linuxish way. The X11 bundled with OS X is not customized; it's a stock 6.8 version with a few tweaks. > Agreed. However, its not ``just" about productivity is it? Anyway DRM was > never productive for anyone. Absolutely. Freedom is paramount. Although DRM was Apple's idea in the first place; they are reconsidering their stance [2] and hopefully Apple should be DRM-Free in a few years. > i wonder why that is so? ;-) Anyway, let's face it it DOES happen on > quite a > few laptops. Yep. Linux can't hope to reach out to the masses if we don't have drivers for popular hardware. > Out of curiosity which one do you use? i had tried some stuff with Bochs, > but that was just to see what works and what dosn't. On the intel macs > parallels is an option, but a proprietary one. Parallels gives excellent performance, but Q-Kju: [3] is also an awesome open-source VM solution for the Mac. Cheers, -- Anant [1] http://anant.wordpress.com/2007/01/18/macnix/ [2] http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/ [3] http://www.kju-app.org/kju/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
