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

[Eric Albert <ejalbert@cs.stanford.edu>]

At 8:09 AM -0800 1/22/00, Mike Schienle wrote:
>At 11:27 PM -0500 1/21/00, Paul Schinder wrote:
>>At 5:18 PM -0500 1/21/00, David Daniel Dierauer wrote:
>>>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.
>
>Just to complete the above list, Tenon provides XTen which is a 
>direct competitor to eXodus. Also from Tenon is MachTen, which is a 
>Mach 2.5 kernel and BSD 4.4 UNIX (same as MacOS X Server) running on 
>top of MacOS. I've been using MachTen on everything from a IIci to 
>an iMac DV SE since 1993.

And to more than complete the list, there's also VNC 
<http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/>, which allows remote viewing of 
displays between any combination of X, the Mac OS, and Win32 systems. 
It's free.  Also free is WeirdX <http://www.jcraft.com/weirdx/>, 
which is an X server written in Java that runs pretty well under MRJ.

-Eric

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Eric Albert                     ejalbert@cs.stanford.edu
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