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Originally Posted by stefmit
What would be the benefit of this, vs. the "X" delivered by default? I do not want to install really everything from my previous Linux "world" (I may as well have gotten Yellow Dog Linux, then), but rather take advantage of what Mac has had to offer for so many year - nice X. Or are you referring to possible incompatibilities between some old "X" programs, if ported to Mac OSX?
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I think you're confusing OS X with X11. In order to run any X11 based apps you need to use Apples X11.app application (or the XFree86 version, but the X11.app is easier), basically will run a rootless X11 server on the desktop, and all the X11 windows will be controlled just as normal Aqua windows are. Aqua itself doesn't directly support the X11 environment. Or, I might be misunderstanding your respose, people love to get confused with "OS X" and "X11", especially as most people refer to X11 simple as X
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Originally Posted by stefmit I hate passionately HTML emails. I will have to look into pine or something ... but - again - temporarily the existing email app may do just fine. The need for communication is higher than the willingness to kill HTML emailing right away, on my new Mac. |
Mail.app can send in plain text, doesn't have to do HTML, it's just that it is pretty good at displaying it if thats your cup of tea
As for the Mac GUI itself and the other Mac'isms, go to
http://www.info.apple.com/usen/panther. There are alot of good topics there on getting started with OS X, also the "Using Mac OS X (Panther)" discussion forum on
http://discussions.info.apple.com. Also, feel free to ask anything here too
I mostly use the discussions board from Apple to simple search for issues/resolutions, as actually posting there you can get a low signal to noise ratio.
Brian