[GLLUG] X Window Managers

Jo Dillon jo@groupinfo.com
Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:03:29 -0500


On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 11:22:57AM -0500, Sean wrote:
> LinuxPPC with Mac-On-Linux emulation of OS X is the closest you can get 
> with Linux. 
> 
> The second closest I would say is probably AfterStep since it uses 
> Display-PS which is what NeXT used, Apple uses Display PDF which is about 
> the same thing IE vectorized display format which results in the sharp 
> crisp scalable imaging.

  Huh? You sure? It's displaying onto X11, not a Display PostScript
server. And there's nothing /that/ special about Display PS/PDF, it's
just a graphics language...most GUIs are flinging bitmaps around anyway.
If X11 had a decent StretchBlt built in it could do most of the same things.