On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 02:54:31AM +0800, Hou, Ruoyu wrote: > The problem I found with X is however irrelevant with those > resource-hogging eye candies, but X itself. In most occasions I choose > not to install X in order to free up say one or two hundred megabytes, > just like some genuine server administrators whose intentions differ from > mine. In real world I must admit that I still use some applications that > can't live without X. > > Some problems lie beyond X. For example, when I mount an msdos file > system, CJK characters in file names would all be unrecognizable. This is > not a bug, but obviously a pain in ass. In Linux and recent version of > FreeBSD this could be solve by assigning proper charset to mount command > and of course, access in xterm or alike. However, I didn't find similar > solution in OpenBSD's mount_msdos/ntfs function (please correct me if I'm > wrong). This would be a trouble when I need to do some cross-platform > job. >
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