[WinMac] FW: Thanks and Another Question
Scott Nishimura(Scott.Nishimura[at]trw.com)
Wed, 2 Jun 1999 10:09:01 -0700
Phil,
What do you want to accomplish by establishing an X session
with the UNIX boxes? If you're doing remote administration,
most of that can be done with a simple telnet session. If
you want to run graphical programs, you'll need an X package.
I've used both MacX from Apple and eXodus from White Pine.
Most of the feedback I've gotten from other people is that
eXodus is a better package (of course, I gathered the feedback
several years ago so things might have changed since then).
The last version of MacX I used
was something like v1.2; this was before it got farmed out
to a firm called Xoftware (?) and then folded back into Apple
for v1.5. I have no idea what version they're up to now, but
IMHO, it seems like Apple is playing hot potato with MacX like
they did with most of the Claris products.
I don't know if there's a freeware/shareware X package for
the Mac. X software is not generally cheap...
Also, check to make sure they support at least X11/R6
("X11 Release Level").
Scott
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Sutton [mailto:phils@sbinet.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 1999 6:32 AM
> Subject: Thanks and Another Question
>
>
>
> Thanks for your responses to my "Mac Alone" message. Now
> another question.
>
> Does anyone know about MacX the software for interacting with
> Xwindows on
> Unix? I was wondering if it would help me interact with the
> Unix crowd with
> more efficiency?
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Phil S.
>
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