From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Mar 3 19: 6:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 597D137B402 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 19:06:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.6/8.11.5) with SMTP id g2436FD67363; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 22:06:15 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 22:06:14 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Brad Knowles Cc: Nathan Mace , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OS-X question(WAS:GUI question.) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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