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sandell@chowning.CNMAT.Berkeley.EDU (Gregory J. Sandell) writes:

>In article <1992Aug20.144448.15125@dvorak.amd.com> mbehrens@barqs.amd.com  
>(Mikael Behrens) writes:
>> In article <1992Aug19.203442.21031@tandem.com>  
>> chopper@gumbytsg.tandem.com (Michael Chop) writes:
>> | Hello fellow netters,
>> | 
>> | I will be plopping down some money on a X-package.  Could some  
>> X-package users post some reviews, reccomendations, or  
>> experience with them.  
>> | 
>> | I understand that the three major packages are co-Xist,  
>> eXodus, and cub-X.  

>I don't see mention of X-mouse, which I use.  X-mouse comes from McGill  
>University, and that's all I know about it.  Couldn't tell ya where to ftp  
>to.  I believe it's public domain.

>When you start up this X, NeXTstep vanishes and a standard-looking X  
>appearance takes over the screen.  This X does everything I've needed it  
>to do and I've run into few problems.  Some of the things I do are:  run S  
>(a statistics/graphics package) on a sparc but use the NeXT as the  
>display; run Motif/X programs from a Silicon Graphics machine with the  
>NeXT as display.

>You can suspend your X session and return to NeXTstep and then back again  
>with special keystrokes.

>There is a strange interaction with the Mail program, though.  If you  
>return to X with the NeXT mail program still running, X will.  This only  
>happens intermittently, though.
>--
>Greg Sandell
>Research Fellow, Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT)
>sandell@cnmat.cnmat.berkeley.edu

Regardless whats out there in PD for X I would go commercial.

For this reason, X on the NeXT is supported by volunteers who don't
gain commerically.  Now given NS3.0 is about to be released you can
be sure that the commerial vendors have made sure that their products
are compatible with future OS releases.

Just my thoughts on this matter.