Adam Hewitt was once rumoured to have said: > Hi All, > > I am about to purchase an Apple iBook and I have been having a quick > look around at the posibility of using Aqua with X11 and be able to run > linux programs. I know that there is the fink project which looks > awesome, and I believe that you have to install fink, XDarwin and either > OroborosX or Apples X11 and you can then use the Aqua window manager and > be able to use "Mac OSX" and have all the apps installed by fink look > and feel like OSX apps. > > My question is which is the better - OroborosX or Apples X11?? Are there > any other versions of X that I am missing?? Am I completely on the wrong > track??
I've been using Apple's X11 implementation. Other than a few annoying `bugs' if you're using strange keyboards (like a real JIS keyboard), its actaully been pretty good. I didn't need to install oroborusx or xdarwin - I presume they're just other X servers for OS X. As for Look and Feel, Apple's X11 only covers windows decorations (ie: Quartz/Aqua act as the Window manager), its still up to the X11 application itself how it wants to render its controls. I typically use X11 whenever I'm writing un*x code since it means I can use an X11 version of emacs and it'll behave like it does on every other X11 platform I use emacs on. As for performance, it seems adequate - I'm using a poor old G3 350 with a about 320MBs of RAM and its performacne seems no different from the rest of OS X. :) YMMV. C. -- --==============================================-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==============================================-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
