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| X-Win32 First PC X Server to Support Apple's Mac Boot Camp StarNet Communications has announced that X-Win32 has become the first PC X server to support Apple Computer's "Boot Camp" program. Boot Camp allows Macintosh users to install the Microsoft's Windows XP operating system as well as Windows-based applications on a separate partition on a new generation of Macintosh computers built around Intel dual core microprocessors. X-Win32 easily installs and runs flawlessly on iMac and other Intel-based Macintosh computers. X-Win32 enables users to connect to powerful engineering, database and networking applications running on remote Unix and Linux servers. StarNet also confirms other industry reports that Windows applications run faster on Intel-based Macintosh computers than on traditional Windows hardware. Tests of several OpenGL-based X Windows applications, running on a remote Red Hat Linux server show frame rate improvements of up to 4 times on a 2GHz dual-core Pentium iMac compared to a Windows PC running under control of a 2GHz Pentium processor. Boot Camp is a publicly distributed beta version of a new feature developed for "Leopard", the next version of Apple's Mac OS X. Apple's latest Tiger version of Mac OS X also includes an X11 X Windows utility. But it lacks a session configuration tool that would give users the ability to set up sessions to a remote host. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |