Re: [MacPerl] OT: X on a mac?

[Paul Schinder <schinder@pobox.com>]

At 5:18 PM -0500 1/21/00, David Daniel Dierauer wrote:
>My apologies for the off-topic post, but despite hunting around on the WWW, I
>haven't found an answer, and was hoping some of you mac/unix gurus would know.
>
>I recently discovered X-Win32, which lets a PC user connect to a remote unix
>server and run programs on it in a GUI, which is far more cool for remote work
>than, say, a telnet interface.
>
>Since I need to do a lot of unix programming this semester, I'm hoping there's
>a similar product for the mac, and would be most grateful for any pointers to
>such a program.
>
>Please reply to me off-list, since this is not strictly Perl-related.


For nothing, you can get MI/X from Microimages. 
<http://www.microimages.com/freestuf/mix/>  Works pretty well, 
considering the price.  That's what I use on those rare occasions I'm 
not near a Unix box and really need to use X.

For money, you can get eXodus from White Pine <http://www.wpine.com>. 
There's also MacX (not to be confused with MacOS X, but I suppose 
that also comes with X). From Apple, I think, but I don't know if 
they still sell/support it.  It will be at the Apple Store if they 
do, I suppose.  eXodus used to have a free demo version.  I've tried 
it, and it's very nice.

For nothing, you can install Linux on a Mac and get the Real Thing, 
XFree86.  Then you can also use ssh and port forwarding to keep your 
connections secure.  If you're going to do a lot of Unix programming, 
might as well be on an actual Unix box.  On lots of Macs these days, 
you can run MOL and have MacOS at the same time.

>
>TIA.
>
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