[X2Go-Dev] Fwd: MAC developers wanted

[Daniel Lindgren]

> OS X is not using X11 as all other UNIX(-like) systems do, but instead a
> proprietary drawing API called Cocoa (or the old, x86-only Carbon
> interface) based on the Quartz rendering/compositing engine.
>
> On other UNIX(-like) systems, Cocoa/Carbon would be (for instance)
> Gtk/Qt and Quartz the X11 server.
>
> In contrast to this, OS X does ship an X11 server, too, called
> "XQuartz", which is using the Quartz rendering engine.

Not sure how relevant this is, but X11 is removed from Mac OS X 10.8
(Mountain Lion) and has to be downloaded by the user:
http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/17/apple-removes-x11-in-os-x-mountain-lion-shifts-support-to-open-source-xquartz/

Cheers,
Daniel