Top Document: comp.windows.x Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) 4/7 Previous Document: 76) What is the xstuff mail-archive? Next Document: 78) Does Motif work with X11R4? X11R5? X11R6? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge You can obtain either OSF/Motif source or binaries from a number of vendors. Motif 1.2.5 source is now available; it is based on X11R5. Motif 2.0 is also available; it, too, is based on X11R5. Motif 1.1 is based on the R4.18 Intrinsics and is finished [7/92] at 1.1.5. A conformant Motif implementation not based on OSF-derived source is being developed by fox@crisp.demon.co.uk (Paul Fox). An OSF/Motif source license must be obtained from OSF before source can be obtained from the Open Software Foundation or any value-added vendor for any version. Call the Direct Channels Desk at OSF at 617-621-7300 for ordering information (direct@osf.org). Various hardware vendors produce developer's toolkits of binaries, header files, and documentation; check your hardware vendor, particularly if that vendor is an OSF member. In addition, independent binary vendors produce Motif toolkits for machines for which Motif is not supported by a vendor; the kits include varied levels of bug-fixing and support for shared libraries and are based on widely divergent version of Motif: Motif 2.0 with X11R6 on SunOS 4.1.3 is available from Soft*Star, fax +39-11-746487. Quest Windows (408-496-1900) sells kits for Suns, as well; IXI (+44 1223 518000, +1-408-427-7700) offers kits for Sun3 and Sun4. NSL (+33 (1) 43 36 77 50; requests@nsl.fr) offers kits for the Sun 3 and Sun 4. Bluestone Consulting, Inc. (609-727-4600) offers Motif 1.1.5 & 1.2 for SunOS, and Motif 1.2 (X11R5) for Solaris 2.1 & 2.2. ICS (617-621-0060, http://www.ics.com ) makes several binary kits, notably for Sun. HP and DEC have announced support for Motif on Sun systems. Unipalm (+44-954-211-797) currently offers for Sun systems a Motif Development Kit including X11R4 and based on Motif 1.1.2. The US distributor is Expert Object Corp (708-926-8500). BIM ships Motif 1.1 binaries for Suns. Shared library support is included. Contact Alain Vermeiren (av@sunbim.be) or Danny Backx (db@sunbim.be) at +32(2)759.59.25 (Fax : +32(2)759.47.95) (Belgium). SILOGIC (+33 61.57.95.95) ships Motif 1.2 and Motif 1.1 on Sun machines. S.I. Systems offers Motif 1.2 for Solaris 2.1; info: 1-800-755-8649 in USA and Canada. Metro Link, Inc. (+1 305-970-7353, sales@metrolink.com) ships X11R5 and Motif 1.2.2 (including a sharable libXm.a) for the 386/486 Unix market. Motif 1.2.3 is also available for QNX, SunOS, Solaris Sparc, and Linux. Lasermoon sells Motif on Linux. in GmbH (+49 7531 65022, gvr@in-gmbh.de) offers development and user kits for SunOS and Solaris. OSF/Motif 2.0 binaries for Linux are available from Soft*Star (fax +39-11-746487, softstar@pol88a.polito.it). LessTif will be a complete drop in replacement for OSF/Motif 1.2. It is currently under development. The URL for information regarding LessTif, and a link to the current snapshot, is: http://www.cs.uidaho.edu:8000/hungry/microshaft/lesstif.html . The Common Desktop Environment is available for Linux from X Inside; see http://www.delix.de for more information. User Contributions:Top Document: comp.windows.x Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) 4/7 Previous Document: 76) What is the xstuff mail-archive? Next Document: 78) Does Motif work with X11R4? X11R5? X11R6? Part1 - Part2 - Part3 - Part4 - Part5 - Part6 - Part7 - Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: faq%craft@uunet.uu.net (X FAQ maintenance address)
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