PRESS RELEASE 07 January 2003

Apple Introduces X11 for Mac OS X

Optimised to Take Full Advantage of Mac OS X’s Quartz & OpenGL Graphics

MACWORLD EXPO, SAN FRANCISCO - January 7th, 2003
Apple today introduced X11 for Mac OS X that allows X11-based applications to run side-by-side with native Mac OS X applications on the same desktop and makes it even simpler to port X11-based applications to the Mac. Apple’s implementation of X11, the common windowing environment for UNIX operating systems, is easy to install and is optimised to take full advantage of Apple’s innovative Quartz graphics system to deliver hardware-accelerated 2D and 3D graphics for fast text scrolling, dynamic dragging and resizing of windows, and stunning 3D animation through OpenGL Direct Rendering.
“Apple has become the highest volume supplier of UNIX-based systems, and now with X11 for Mac OS X we’re making it even easier for UNIX pros to switch to the Mac”, said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “Mac OS X is really catching on with the UNIX community because of its standards-based approach, familiar tool sets and rich foundation for building modern applications”.
With a complete suite of the standard X11 display server software, clientlibraries and developer toolkits, X11 for Mac OS X makes it even simpler toport Linux and UNIX applications to the Mac. X11 for Mac OS X is easy to getup and running with a single download and install for both the displayserver and client libraries, and the optional X11 Software Developer Kit forMac OS X allows developers to build almost any X11R6.6 application with asimple recompile. X11 for Mac OS X is completely integrated with the Aquauser interface for seamless cut and paste between X11 and Mac OS Xapplications and full access to Aqua controls for zoom, close andminimisation to the Dock.
Pricing & Availability:
The public beta of X11 for Mac OS X is available immediately as a freedownload at 102.p.syniva.es/ie/macosx/x11. The final version of X11 for Mac OS X will be made available later in 2003.
X11 for Mac OS X requires Mac OS X version 10.2, a minimum of 256MB ofmemory and is designed to run on the following Apple products: eMac, iMac,iBook, Power Macintosh G3, Power Mac G4 and any PowerBook introduced afterMay 1998.
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