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Apple tries to bring OSX under the attention of the concise Unix and Linux-users. Thanks to the new X11-system is the possible round applications for that operating systems - and also the BSD-variants - under OSX to turn.

Apple looks at against a disappointing sale of its G4-workstations and ogles the concise market that now yet many money spends at Unix-workstations. X11 is a complete Xwindow-system that at the same time turns with the Aqua-interface. The free betaversie of X11, to download from the Mac-zone of socraweb, all displayservers and 'client libraries' XFREE86 contain to turn on an Apple G4. But X11 turns ram also on a 700 MHz G3-processor and 256 MB.

Mac OSX has been based on the open source-technology of Darwin. The X11-project tries to drive the operating system further on in the speed of the peoples, helped through sites as opendarwin. org. For meanwhile Macs from way back popular are in the graphic occupation sector and under artists, sit there more potentially in the concise market.

X11 makes under the last OSX 10.2.3 version also use of the fast Quartz-rendering and supports 'carry & drop off' between the Xfree-surroundings and the familiar Aqua-interface. Open Pantry is one of the products that works now already with X11 under Mac OSX. The free pantry suite, meanwhile a stable beta, has the same interface as the Linux and Windows-variant (click on the image above furrow a screenshot). Now also Microsoft Pantry X an open source-competitor has gotten for OSX.