IRAF and More - For Mac Using Astronomers and Astrophysicists
IRAF 2.14 has been announced and is available for download. The Mac (PPC and Intel) versions appear to work properly on both Leopard and Tiger. I’ll try and have installers made for these today. Certainly, I can test the Intel one easily but it’s harder for me to test the PowerPC version […]
Tags: 2.14, installers, IRAF, iraf.net, Leopard, Tiger, unix — .No full screen yet, but some progress is being made with Apple’s X11, though not officially coming from Apple.com yet.
I’m pleased to announce that I’ve posted source and binaries on Xdarwin.org for Xquartz 1.2a7. Since 1.2a6, the following issues have been resolved: JIS (Japanese) keyboards are now correctly […]
Tags: Leopard, unix, x11, xquartz — .You can subscribe and look at the archives to Apple’s X11 User’s mailing list here. Ben Byer has been doing some heroic all hours work to try and fix some problems in X11 in Leopard, mostly from switching code bases and other issues. It’s pretty impressive to see Apple’s staff interacting directly with […]
Tags: apple, Leopard, unix, x11 — .Updated at the bottom | Second Update
So, here’s the quasi-official word from Ben Byer, one of Apple’s x11 developers on Apple’s x11-users list.
Biggest architectural change in Leopard for X11: Switched from XFree86 codebase (based on, IIRC, X11R6.8) to X.org codebase (X11R7.2) Biggest user-visible change: launchd support for X11. The only […]
Tags: Leopard, unix, x11 — .The wonderful High performance computing for Mac site has pre-compiled binaries for Grace and the motif library on which it depends. This is perhaps easier than the compile-fest that is required to get it working via Fink on an Intel-based Mac. Of course, for reasons that remain unclear to me, people appear to […]
Tags: fink, grace, plotting, unix — .I’ve noticed a reasonable number of Macintosh users who, when giving a presentation, use Powerpoint rather than Apple’s Keynote. Furthemore, there is another group (with some overlap) who use Firefox(not even the more Mac-like Camino).
Obviously, these are matters of personal preference - but I wonder how many Mac users use Firefox because they have […]
Tags: apple, unix — .Welcome to the Mac IRAF FAQ. If your question is not here, contact me, and I’ll see if I can help you out or add the question here. I’m always open to suggestions for things for the web site. Use your browser’s find feature, command-F, to search the questions for a word […]
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