"A prerelease of X-Windows version X11R6.3 for OS4 is now available on OS4-depot. It is a complete unix-like environment, which is meant as a base for ports from the linux-world." It includes X11R6.3 and various other components.
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No offense to those how worked hard to make it happen, but talk about ruining a good thing. I find this absolutely aweful. Why would I want to spoil the whole Amiga experience with X? Do you think people are going to convert to OS4 b/c they can run some X based apps now? They can do that with Linux --and gee, Linux actually runs on an actual computer.
Okay. So here's the "cue": AROS.
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X-Windows is ported, other programs are hosted within this envirnoment.
> The opposite of native here is merely 'non-native'
I wasn't refering to the opposite, but usually you have
a) native
b) emulated
c) hosted
each one has is advantages and drawbacks, but all do the same (or try to), to run a program in a given API, altought at different speeds...
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Why on earth the moaning and groaning??
This is a huge amount of work done unpaid in someone's spare time. This is brilliant.
There are some great benefits to this release:
1. Non-native apps can now be hosted on OS4
2. Porting of X apps to OS4 is now possible (for example Mozilla) while the UI is ported to the native GUI toolset.
I say GREAT JOB CygnusEd and we look forward to more good stuff in the future.
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one more step to that $10,313.02 booty. ( http://www.discreetfx.com/AmiZilla.html )
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An X-Window system is existing on Amiga for quite many years.
There's a difference between 68K and PowerPC processors, you know. Not to mention that both Amiga and X11 have improved out of all recognition since those early ports.
Do you think people are going to convert to OS4 b/c they can run some X based apps now?
No more than they'd convert to MacOSX. It's an extra for those who use OS4, not a sales argument, for Pete's sake.
Dearie me.
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Of course you can run YDL/Debian Linux on the A1 if you wanted to.
I tried it myself, but since I find some of the apps a little on the ponderious side, I went straight back to OS4, responsive but a bit lacking in the Word processing department, hope this news will mean an end to that.
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