On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> Why xdmcp? This means that thy have to run the whole X desktop on the
> server. This means much more traffic on the network. Why not let them
> run just the programs they need?

Oh,  I quite agree!
But I got the impression from the thread and Tom's question
that the user had certain expectations.   For example,  a Sun
can play the XDMCP game,  and so can any PC based Linux box.
ZSeries Linux can do this too,  we're just more cautious
about where we throw those expensive MIPS.

-- R;

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