--- a b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hahaha. So you want to tell me that people will use > >fancy 3D desktops over a X network connection? 3D > >Pinball over Remote Desktop is just about > >playable...over X? Not a chance. > > Like I wrote before... in the country where I'm at, > people would rather use > a game console than a PC to play games, purely on > the basis that it's too > much trouble to run "INSTALL.EXE" on Windows, and > much easier/simpler to > just shove in optical media and have the game > "pop-up". Feel free to draw > your own conclusions.
Ah. Well there you go. There will not be a thin client. The shove in optical media is more akin to Live cds, not thin clients. On Mac OS X, there is no 'run Install.exe'. You just drop the application whereever you want and it is already installed. You just run it straight. > > >Really? You mock those who are asking for GUI stuff > >now when things are run locally (and it will always > be > >so) but expect them to settle for GUI stuff over a > >remote X connection or agree to buying some device > >that is remotely controlled/managed and pay to use > the > >GUI stuff too? > > I never mocked anyone. All I stated were two > observations of my own: My apologies. > > 1. it's faster and more efficient to run a simple > CLI command than click > around Agreed. > 2. desktop as we know it has no future. This is why I disagree. There are two methods currently in use that demonstrate that desktops we have now are doing things contrary to the thin-client desktop and are widely used where available. > > >Great. Hopefully that means games on Solaris-based > PCs > >too and therefore consumer Solaris and no more > buggy, > >malware ridden Windows everywhere. > > We brought that upon ourselves. Nobody forced us to > use Windows and create > enough momentum so that it would effectively kill > all competition. Only our > own ignorance (humanity's as a whole) and computer > illiteracy did that. Maybe. Microsoft did not try to play the control game in the beginning. Apple did. IBM did. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
