> From: Donncha O Caoimh [mailto:donncha.ocaoimh at tradesignals.com]
> Yup, the Dullahan machines are gone. Maybe if they have a Unix server
> running in the background you can telnet to, but that's not very
> acceptable IMO. I mean, what if you want to play KDE solitare eh? :)
> (ok, X via the DISPLAY variable could be done, but the
> bandwidth on the
> network would be sucked dry with lots of users!)
Well, X was designed from the start to saturate Ethernet with the minimum
number of users.
It has to be said, a major advanatge of using a Unix box is having a nice
window manager such as Sawmill; X on Windows just ain't the same. Although,
I have one here called X-Deep/32 and it's not too bad. It'll run in
multiple-window mode and Emacs works nicely.
Paul.
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