From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 13 17:11:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA21561 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 May 1998 17:11:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA21549 for ; Wed, 13 May 1998 17:11:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id JAA00633; Thu, 14 May 1998 09:41:35 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980514094135.H320@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 09:41:35 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: ChristmasH , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: X11 applications (was: question...) References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from ChristmasH on Wed, May 13, 1998 at 05:43:51PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 13 May 1998 at 17:43:51 -0400, ChristmasH wrote: > i know that the X window system is compatible with FreeBSD...but i was > wondering if that means you can run any standard run-of-the-mills X > application on X windows and not having to recompile it....i know you have to > do that with some linux applications, but i was wondering if the X windows > system would run an application without any other means of changing the source > code or messing around with it... Thanks again. Sure, you can run just about any X application on FreeBSD. Think network: the server runs on a FreeBSD machine, the application runs in an environment that can support it. As a result, you can run Sun, SGI, HP or DEC X clients and display on a FreeBSD machine. Apart from that, of course, the same constraints apply for X as they do for other programs. FreeBSD will run native programs and most BSDI programs with no preparation, Linux and SCO COFF (iBCS2) programs with appropriate setup. X clients don't use any specific kernel functions, so most Linux X clients will run on FreeBSD. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message