Hello, I am writing this email due to concerns raised in the following article:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/29881.html primarily the comments of Wexelblat. Of concern is the quote: "I've been working in the Windows world for years now, and client-server display systems are utterly irrelevant to the majority of real-world computer users. X needs to be replaced by a direct-rendered model, on which a backwards-compatible X server can be reasonably trivially implemented" The client-server XFree86 model is the MOST IMPORTANT feature of XFree86 in our organization. The ability to easily AND seamlessly run X-apps over a network is an absolute necessity in deployment of thin clients (see www.ltsp.org). This feature is trivially dismissed by Mr. Wexelblat and thus the reason for this email. His opening comment begins with "I've been working in the Windows world for years now" raises an eybrow. Let me stress WE DO NOT USE WINDOWS and I take exception to those who insist on following this path. In reference to the "real world" and XFree86 client/server model: we have one of the largest deployments of thin clients with 43 sites and a total of over 1500 computers running purely linux/XFree86 (not dual boot). Please keep this in mind as you continue your development of XFree86. As far as I am concerned you have all done a marvelous job with it and I wish the developers all the best and continued success. Thank-you www.sd73.bc.ca/tux _____________________________________________________ | John Cuzzola (B.Sc., RHCE) | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 1383-9th Avenue | | System Analyst/Programmer | Kamloops, BC V2C 3X7 | | School District #73 | Phone: (250) 374-0679 | ----------------------------------------------------- ... In God we Trust, all others must show proper identification ... _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
