Apple X11 with Fink

In MWSF, Steve Jobs announced X11

on MacOS, which is a good news from Unix switcher like me
(I am also a Windows switcher as well!). At lease, it shows that Apple pays very careful
attention to the existing Unix user.

I already had my XDarwin + XFree86 on my iBook, and had used it over a year when the day I
was using 10.1. At that mement, X Window was provided by Fink
.
The fink distribution is very easy to get installed. And I could also run GNOME and KDE from it.
It was a nice stuff so that I can even remote "telnet" to my Linux box (a.k.a. punknix).
However, the X Window performance is very bad, as my iBook uses very old ATI Rage display and
500MHz G3. When I ran KDE together with OpenOffice, it was slow like a turtle and it is very
irresponsive. Of course, both KDE and OpenOffice port on MacOS X looks very promising, but on my
'Book it is not as impressive as it could be.

Apple's offering of X11 is a good news. It incorporates Quartz code in X11 gives performance
boost as the drawing routine is now native. But as X11 comes with a quartz-wm, kind of rootless
window manager. I'm curious on how KDE and GNOME could be run. So I removed all the Fink stuff
and reinstalled just system-xfree86. Fink provides a very
detailed information

on how to work with X11 with Fink. I followed its instruction and it runs perfectly now,
except KDE and GNOME is not installed. Now, I have a smooth sailing with OpenOffice!
NEdit and Mozilla (install from fink) on X11 is also very responsive. Mozilla on X11
even run faster than running natively, but it crashes frequency when running mail & news app.

Next, lets see how KDE could work on X11...