can you use the GNOME and KDE packages from a linux CD on X11

Short answer: YES.
Long answer: but you may have to install an RPM kinda thing before, since most softwares on Linux CDs are archived with it.

I heard someone found RPM for OSX, but I'm not sure.

The simplest way (if you have at least a xDSL connection) is to install them from fink.

good luck anyway.
 
I'm afraid that the answer is vastly closer to "no."

If your CDs include source (not binary) packages, and you have a darwin binary of rpm to install them, and you have a C compiler installed, then you could, with some difficulty, manually recompile the necessary packages.

It would be a huge pain, and would require a lot of futzing. I don't mean to sound condescending when I say that anyone who asked the original question would probably find it to be unaccomplishable.

The previous poster is correct that fink would be a much simpler tool to use to accomplish this task. Even manually downloading and compiling the source distributions would be easier than going from rpms.
 
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