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To leave Commie, hyper to
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> I'm
> not sure if
> OS X default version of XFree allows network transparency and
> which is one
> of the greatest features of XFree :)
As you described it, it sounds like one of the basic features of
Appletalk... So, Apple will probably port this feature to OS X in some way
or other. Don't know whether it works in the first versions of OS X
though... (Probably not. Fred recently posted an article about this to his
DTM list. Forwarded below.)
They have to think some other way of making it, because OS X doesn't support
Appletalk anymore (which is a relief, really...).
> and btw, it's X Window, not X
> Windows.. :p (actually, it's X Window System.. but.. )
XWGQWWUYEXZW!!! :) You unix people should use a bit less consonants... ;)
> for example we have this one development
> machine, from which i use star office, whenever i need office
> stuff - star
> office is superslow and heavy. this way it doesn't generate
> load on my box
> almost at all.
Hmmmm.... D'oh! The Appletalk thingy I was talking about was _not_ the same
thing as network transparency, after all... The programs were located on the
centered server machine, but then loaded to the memory of the local
machine...
It was convenient anyhow.... The local machine didn't need so much hard disk
space and it could use the server as its scratch disk. ;)
Hmmm... yep, network transparency sounds great.
[The news about OS X from DTM list...]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Baube [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 5. maaliskuuta 2001 20:57
> To: Death to Microsoft List !bcc
> Subject: DTM: Napster; Mac Stuff
>
>
> G O O D M O R N I N G S I L I C O N V A L L E Y
> Last updated: MONDAY, MARCH 5, 2001, 8:30 AM
(...)
>
> Mac OS X to launch without formal splashy product intro-
> duction, important new features: As Apple marches towards
> the first formal public release of its long-awaited OS X
> operating system later this month, reports are emerging
> that suggest that the company would have been well-served
> to postpone the release. Sources close to Apple suggest
> that the OS will likely confront users with at least a
> few notable glitches, ranging from lack of support for
> importing analog content through the video-in connection
> to the near humiliating absence of support for DVD play-
> back or authoring. To play DVDs or use the DVD-authoring
> capabilities of the newer Macs that have them, users may
> have to shut down the PC and reboot using OS 9.1. "It's
> clearly not a positive," said David Bailey, senior analyst
> at Gerard Klauer Mattison. "We didn't expect huge acceptance
> of the software initially, not until Mac OS X-native appli-
> cations are available in the summer - but then, the lack of
> DVD playback takes away functionality."
> http://www.msnbc.com/news/538307.asp
>
> -- Eben Moglen, professor of law and legal history at
> Columbia University Law School, and general counsel
> of the Free Software Foundation.
> http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20010312&s=moglen
>
>
> (c) 2001, SiliconValley.com.
>
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