Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 09:41:35 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: ChristmasH <ChristmasH@aol.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: X11 applications (was: question...) Message-ID: <19980514094135.H320@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <cc6c04e7.355a1418@aol.com>; from ChristmasH on Wed, May 13, 1998 at 05:43:51PM -0400 References: <cc6c04e7.355a1418@aol.com>
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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
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