Honestly, do you need to do a report on every piece of Windows software that runs in boot camp? Everyone knows that all of this software is going to work. For the love of God, the software you are talking about in this article is a server based software. The macs with Intel processors aren't even server class machines! Please stop reporting on software that works with Boot Camp. We already know it works. Let's get back to good Macintosh reporting and talk about Mac software, not Windows software. I always enjoy those articles.

Andrew

What is this? A Windows program? A Unix program? A Mac program that for some reason or another needs BootCamp? The article doesn't say. It just says it requires BootCamp. If it's a Windows program, then I agree with Guest completely. It's practically an insult to report on Windows software here.

When Mac sites start writing articles about Windows programs, I really start to believe the doomsayers. Maybe BootCamp really WILL bring about the death of the Mac.

Boot Camp is the new iPod... Just mention it and you will get more press than most companies advertising budgets could ever afford.

Exactly! It worked for that voice recognition software company. Soon every crappy piece of Windows software will be getting demoed on a Mac running Windows.

Errr...doesn't Mac OS X already do X11 remotes sessions using the -X option. I've used the X11 app in Panther & Tiger to run remote sessions on a Linux box
running Debian.

Or was I dreaming of yet another POS Windows app?

This is all just advertising X11 already does exactly what this app does. It just has a utility that does what ssh -X does for you.

Plus if you really wanted to run remote X sessions in windows you could do it for Free using Cygwin and not pay the $225 to these clowns.

It's a Windows program...to access remote UNIX programs...that you can access on your Mac...running Boot Camp.

Seriously. What gives? Is every article outside a narrowly defined set of parameters with Apple, Jobs or iPod in them too "unmaclike" to be considered worthwhile?

What will you do? Not play your iPod for an hour in protest?

At least Jimothy bothered to find out what it is and isn't.

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Seriously. What gives? Is every article outside a narrowly defined set of parameters with Apple, Jobs or iPod in them too "unmaclike" to be considered worthwhile?

What will you do? Not play your iPod for an hour in protest?

At least Jimothy bothered to find out what it is and isn't.

While I appreciate you giving me credit, the reason this is irrelevant (I'll leave it up to you to decide if it's interesting) to a Mac web site is that a) This is a Windows program that, duh, runs on Windows. Surely we don't expect TMO to have an article for every Windows application. b) It's neither the only, nor best, way to run UNIX X-Windows applications on your Mac. You can run them locally (since Mac OS X is UNIX-based and supports X11), or use the X11 included to run them remotely, without dual booting.

My comment about "what it is" was meant to show how ridiculous it is to run such a program on a Mac, but apparently I was too subtle.

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Seriously. What gives? Is every article outside a narrowly defined set of parameters with Apple, Jobs or iPod in them too "unmaclike" to be considered worthwhile?

Ok, explain what's newsworthy about it, please.

Windows runs on Macs now. This program runs in Windows.

What, exactly, is newsworthy about learning that this program will work on a Mac? Shouldn't we be surprised if it DOESN'T run? This is like writing an article that Safari works on a Mac. Yeah, we know.

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At least Jimothy bothered to find out what it is and isn't.

I was pretty sure what it was to begin with. But the fact that it was not 100% clear by reading the article only makes the artical that much more out of place here.

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What will you do? Not play your iPod for an hour in protest?

Well, if this becomes a trend at Mac Observer, I will certainly stop visiting. I really hope it doesn't become a trend. iPod news is annoying enough, but Windows news? Don't let Windows developers start marketing to Mac users like this. Mac users want Mac software, not Windows software.

As for the title question: well, tell me, why would this be interesting? I can make toast on my Mac Mini if I put a toaster on top of it. Does anybody care?

no one's forcing you to read articles published on mo? ;\

Hey isn't it usually good form for the moderator to make a note for everyone to see when they edit or remove posts?

Biff:

To what are you referring? Many posts got lost when the forum got hacked yesterday and it was restored from an earlier backup. Otherwise, the only posts that get removed are trolls and spammers.