On Jul 25, 2005, at 3:36 AM, James A. Stroble wrote:
On 日, 2005-07-24 at 22:44, Hawaii Linux Institute wrote:
James A. Stroble wrote:
So Wayne, I have to ask you what I have asked you in person, do
you own
stock in Sun?
Yes I do. But they were bought before the bubble burst. (Sold CISCO
and kept SUNW. Just to let everyone know who smart I am.) Wayne
Fair enough. Maybe Jim's wife was smarter,
she's smarter than I am. :-)
I do like the ability of X to work over a network,
X doesn't have a monopoly here. NeWS worked over the network, as
did Steve Uhler's MGR. Y-Windows does as well.
The fundamental problem with X's notion of client/server is that the
proper division of labor between the client and the server can only
be decided on an application-by-application basis, and X doesn't
allow this.
and to crash without taking out the OS.
Well, given DRI, even X can't honestly honor this request in the
presence of a driver bug, or having the DRI pipeline crash the card,
requiring a reboot (possibly via three-fingered salute) to fix.
