On Friday 17 November 2006 00:12, Nick LaForge wrote: > > I haven't looked into Plan 9 much, but I assume that the device driver > > situation is at least as bad as that for the BSDs, probably worse? > > Well, I used NetBSD and it seemed very complete, simple, and clean. > (The interface is clean anyway.) Linux, on the other hand, seemed to > support more esoteric devices, but things were often inconsistent, > incomplete, and buggy. Plan 9 is very clean, but limited and > primitive. (More monkeys needed.) > > > The 'X/video/audio server' would be the terminal, not the CPU server. > > A small quiet box that you plug into Ethernet, and plug in a display > > (CRT/LCD/DLP/plasma/whatever). No disk, boots from PROM. An X terminal > > that is fast enough to display TV/movies at 24-60 fps. (e.g. it has to > > decode mpeg2ts) Or a media bridge like the Roku HD1000 (no longer sold) > > that also does X11. > > So, it is called a server, but it only serves itself? Or does it > serve video to the screen? I remember X uses weird 'server' > terminology. But I understand now what you mean. >
There's actually nothing weird about the way it uses server terminology. A server provides a service. You have an XServer because it provides an X Service to the X clients (Applications) that use it. Just like an NFS server provides an NFS service to an NFS client... You just have to realise that it's named for what it does... Hamish. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
