Re: [WinMac] FW: Thanks and Another Question

Curtis Wilcox(cwcx[at]uhura.cc.rochester.edu)
Wed, 02 Jun 1999 14:20:59 -0400

At 10:09 AM 6/2/99 -0700, Scott Nishimura wrote:
>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

I don't know the details of what is supports but if you want "free" there's
MI/X <http://www.microimages.com/freestuf/mix/>

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