Quoting Andre John Cruz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> to some degree, i think i agree with what was said here...if only we can
> have the display PDF (quartz) of Mac OS X :P

http://www.gnustep.org/  GNUStep (implements the Openstep spec)
http://www.gyve.org/dgs/                    and
http://www.gnustep.org/developers/DGS.html  Display Ghostscript 

GNUStep (an application framework written mostly in Objective-C) is
designed in a deliberately modular fashion so that it can be used
equivalently with different back-end display engines.   One such display
engine -- one that would closely approximate what is possible with
NeXTStep and its gaudy MacOS X progeny -- would be XFree86 with a
Display Ghostscript extension library -- but the code for that extension
is still alpha-level.  

In its absence, one can use plain XFree86 as a substitute back-end
display engine for GNUStep.  This is what you currently see when you run
Window Maker (official window manager of the GNUStep Project).
GNUMail.app is similarly NeXT-ish, is written in Objective-C, and relies
on the GNUStep libraries.  See:
http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/applications-muas.html

You may also find Chris Browne's page about libs/toolkits for X11 useful:
http://cbbrowne.com/info/xlibs.html

Perhaps it's obvious, but I always admired NeXTStep.  Pity what Apple
Computer's done to it, though.

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