Apple created the XQuartz project as a community effort to further develop and support X11 on Mac.
X11 is no longer included with Mac, but X11 server and client libraries are available from the XQuartz project. Run Xming on your PC to start the X server. If you have not already done so, download putty.exe from the PuTTY site and install it. Matlab, mathematics, etc) and it will display on your Mac. Once you are logged into the linux system, you can just run the GUI program of your choice (ie.