On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 01:50:05PM -0500, Mark Laufersweiler wrote: > And a command line is not a windows environment. So unless they put > hooks into the DirectX directly (ugh), then there is still the need > to have X11 hanging around there somewhere. But maybe then again > apt-get install X11*
Good thing all of the core SWC lessons use terminal- and browser-based tools ;). Sticking with terminal apps will also makes life easier for students who eventually SSH into shared systems, since tunneling X gives admins on the remote boxes access to all of your local windows [1]. When I have to tunnel X, I use a nested Xephyr [2] instance to protect my main X server from that sort of snooping, but that's a level of detail I'd rather not go into in a SWC workshop ;). Cheers, Trevor [1]: http://www.hackinglinuxexposed.com/articles/20040705.html [2]: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Xephyr/ -- This email may be signed or encrypted with GnuPG (http://www.gnupg.org). For more information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy
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