Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 22:06:14 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: Nathan Mace <nmace85@yahoo.com>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OS-X question(WAS:GUI question.) Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020303220310.54127A-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <p0510140bb8a59e566b67@[10.0.1.26]>
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On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Brad Knowles wrote: > It is 95% of the way there from the Mac perspective. However, > it does not ship with an X server, and getting one to work on MacOS X is > not trivial. It's much more difficult to get it working and fully > integrated with the MacOS X desktop (i.e., in rootless mode). Most any > of the command-line stuff you want is probably either already there > (among other things, they've integrated OpenSSH), or should relatively > easily compile and install. Many of the things you've said are true. The X comment didn't appear to me to be the case. It took me two minutes to get X working: find the link on the OS X software page on apple.com, download it, and install it. After that, I could double click the XFree86 icon and it "just worked", either rooted or rootless. It brought up a couple of xterms, xclock was installed, etc. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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