But you can get the best of both worlds.
Don't run an X-Windows SERVER on your web server. DO use an X-Windows server on your
desktop machine and run GUI Linux programs displaying on your desktop.
Remember, unlike Windows, the server and client in X-windows are completely separate
apps and can be run on different machines.
At 08:57 AM 10/9/00 -0800, Chris Lott wrote:
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>>That seems like a pretty ANTI-Linux post.
>>
>I'm NOT anti-linux. I have a number of linux boxes on both intel and ppc. I
>LIKE it. In my experience, though, Windows 2000 on the same hardware with
>the apps I like is faster in operation than the equivalent X applications
>that I have tried. Others I know have come to the same conclusion. The
>answer for me was not to dump Linux, but to dump X. Plus, since most of my
>linux boxes are servers of one kind or another, it is just a waste of disk
>space to have it and a waste of resources to run it, since I can get it all
>done from the CLI.
>
>> If you configure X properly, try Xfree 4.01, it
>> really runs fast. Just by nature it will
>> never be as fast as a GUI done somewhat in
>> Kernel (thats a whole another story about
>> Windows and im not gonna get into it)
>
>Fair enough.
>
>> That is where the true power of X lies,
>> in that you can invoke an X program over
>> the net if you had too.
>
>Sure. I know that. The point that was raised was about common office
>applications being faster in X. There is much utility to running an app
>remotely, though again I prefer just to use the character apps for that.
>
>> so it may not
>> be as fast as Windows
>
>Which is all I was saying. It has nothing to do with being anti-Linux. I
>am, in fact, quite the opposite.
>
>c
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