[BBLISA] Desktop policies and UNIX-ish operating systems

[Arthur Gaer]

On Jan 30, 2010, at 1:58 PM, Jurvis LaSalle wrote:

>> And there must be some way to ssh
>> into a remote machine and then run X11 remotely.
>
> This has been possible for a very long time.  The Oroborus guys got  
> a working X11 environment back in the 10.2 time frame.  Apple has  
> been offering an X11 package on the install discs since 10.4 (and  
> no, you don't have to reinstall the whole OS just to add that  
> package).

As of 10.5 X11 automatically comes pre-installed on OS X.  I think you  
can go through the effort of deleting/not installing it if you really  
want to, but it's part of the default install now.

Full X11R7 compatibility is claimed.

Arthur Gaer
gaer at math.harvard.edu
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