Apple X11 and OpenOSX, Oh Yah!

True native X-window environment with full Quartz integration...at last. Thanks Apple!

We are excited to announce our entire product line that utilizes XFree, the X11 window environment, can immediately use Apple's version of X11.

That means that your existing version of Grass GIS, The Gimp, OpenOSX Office, and OpenOSX FilmGimp will all work as is with Apple's Cocoa-based X11.

This is exciting news, because Apple's X11 launches much faster; nearly instantly when compared with OroborOSX and XDarwin, and Apple has enabled native hardware support using the Quartz graphics system for dramatic speed improvements and true integration between the X11 and Mac OS X environments. X11 also supports 3-button mice and mouse 3-button emulation.

Warning: Apple's X11 is currently Public Beta (pre-release) software, and although our experience has been pleasant with no major issues, please be cautious with Apple's X11 and treat it as Beta software. Generally, beta software should not be relied upon in mission-critical applications. If you do decide to use it, always make adequate archives of your data before installing and using it.

So if you do decide that you want to go ahead and try X11 out, just install Apple's X11 package either before or after you have installed your OpenOSX package(s).

If you install an OpenOSX package after you have installed Apple's X11 package, you do not need to do anything special, you are all set! Our package will not overwrite an existing version of X-Windows.

Apple's package will overwrite our installation of XFree with theirs. If you try X11 out and want to go back to ours, run the "Remove X-Windows" package included with your OpenOSX CD, and then install your OpenOSX package again.

We have prepared a package that will create OpenOSX application launch items for Apple's X11 application. Download it for free from here.


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