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A comment on X11 and the disturbing trend of Apple removing functionality from OS X.

Re:X11 and the disturbing trend of Apple removing functional... by michael_miller on Monday August 06, 2012 @10:42AM (#4345364)
This is a very rational decision for Apple to make. 99% of their customers don't even know what X11 is, yet most of them will be downloading Mountain Lion from the Mac App Store. Not bundling X11 saves most users 70MB of unnecessary download.
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Re:X11 and the disturbing trend of Apple removing functional... by jwbaker on Monday August 06, 2012 @11:04AM (#4345465)
It's been some time since Apple shipped the X11 package by default. You've had to download it yourself. They're not saving anything by removing it from people's computers
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