On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 03:56:40AM -0500, Jay Maynard wrote:
> X was designed for an Xterminal environment, where you have a
> thin client driven by a host computer. Nobody does those any more.
Is there anything else that is 'window-based' rather than the current
'screen-based' way of things, e.g. M$TS,ICA,VNC?
> ...why they needed another program to run it on the Windows desktops...
It was pretty shortsighted of them not to build an Xserver in, was it
not? almost criminal!
> You probably also have it set up for bump-mouse-to-lose-focus, too.
you've found me out! I think focus-follows-mouse is a thing of true
beauty... saves me untold hundreds of clicks per day. Case sensitivity
gives me another 26 unique characters to use in filenames. Here I
suggest we'll have to agree to disagree again.
> Try doing that over a slow network link. Oink.
Yes, one does have to think and make sensible choices. X over dialup is
just silly, especially with big screens. that's what VNC is for - clunky!
> Yup. We also don't have to put up with that gaping collection of security
> holes masquerading as an OS, or the other gaping collection of security
> holes masquerading as a web browser.
I expect it won't be long though, the level of uptake of Linux & it's
similarity to real unix will mean the trojans will appear sooner or
later. The nice thing is that if we make sensible choices about user
login priveleges, the resulting damage can be kept to a minimum. To a
degree the same applies to recent windows versions, but the user account
has to be at administrator privelege to do anything nearly useful, thus
negating the benefits of an account structure :(
davidt
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