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What is X11?
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<blockquote data-quote="mac57" data-source="post: 316462" data-attributes="member: 17052"><p>X11 is a graphical environment that is widely in use in the Unix and Linux worlds and has been for many, many years. A great majority of the open source Linux programs available out there, such as GIMP, use X11 as their interface to the graphical environment as a result. Since Mac OS X is based on FreeBSD, a unix variant, it also supports X11, and includes it on the install disks.</p><p></p><p>You don't need X11 unless you want to run open source software on your Mac, such as GIMP or such things as the excellent gnumeric spreadsheet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mac57, post: 316462, member: 17052"] X11 is a graphical environment that is widely in use in the Unix and Linux worlds and has been for many, many years. A great majority of the open source Linux programs available out there, such as GIMP, use X11 as their interface to the graphical environment as a result. Since Mac OS X is based on FreeBSD, a unix variant, it also supports X11, and includes it on the install disks. You don't need X11 unless you want to run open source software on your Mac, such as GIMP or such things as the excellent gnumeric spreadsheet. [/QUOTE]
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