How is it that native Aqua app's don't launch X11/Xterm before running, and GNU/Linux based X11 apps which have been ported do ?
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That's just a matter of configuration. You can change that behavior in the .xinitrc. For more details you can read a recent blog post [1] I made about how to configure your OS X to behave in a more Linuxish way.
The X11 bundled with OS X is not customized; it's a stock 6.8 version with a few tweaks.
Agreed. However, its not ``just" about productivity is it? Anyway DRM was never productive for anyone.
Absolutely. Freedom is paramount. Although DRM was Apple's idea in the first place; they are reconsidering their stance [2] and hopefully Apple should be DRM-Free in a few years.
i wonder why that is so? ;-) Anyway, let's face it it DOES happen on quite a few laptops.
Yep. Linux can't hope to reach out to the masses if we don't have drivers for popular hardware.
Out of curiosity which one do you use? i had tried some stuff with Bochs, but that was just to see what works and what dosn't. On the intel macs parallels is an option, but a proprietary one.
Parallels gives excellent performance, but Q-Kju: [3] is also an awesome open-source VM solution for the Mac.
Cheers,