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X11 Client/Server Programming on Panther
yes, but this works with any X11 program. install all the gnome, kde, etc. goodies from fink. then open X11 on your mac, open an xterm, ssh -X in to the remote X11, and run any program. i use it at the school where i teach. i ssh -X into my linux desktop to run mozilla to access web sites that can't get past our web filter. (no, not pR0n, but slashdot, and some free sites, message boards, and stuff).
X11 Client/Server Programming on Panther
Hello,
Unfortunately, no
Definitely not a stupid question. Unfortunately, the answer to the question "does that mean that I could copy the program over onto my powerbook and run it under OS X via X11" is definitely no (Macs use PowerPC chips, basically no-one else does, so compiled code is not transportable). However, if you have access to the source code of this program, it might well be possible to recompile the program for OS X, then run it under X11... sometimes this is trivial, sometimes it takes quite a bit of know-how; it all depends. As neophyte computer user, getting it to run on your computer might be essentially impossible, unfortunately. The power of X11 and the BSD core of OS X is that projects like fink can take hundreds of programs and utilities (the GIMP, for example), and make OS X versions that anyone can install and use. If you have the source-code for this program, you might try to find someone who could help you see if porting it over would be easy to do.
X11 Client/Server Programming on Panther
What you could do is log in to the Sun system and redirect the display using X11. That's the 'client/server' notion that makes X11 so useful.
X11 Client/Server Programming on Panther
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