On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 08:32:21AM +0100, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Lukas Molzberger wrote: > > > As far as I know the only reason for having the X messaging > > system is the remote display feature. But I guess that less > > than 5% of the XFree users are actually using this feature and > > there are already other solutions like VNC available. > > "Already" ? X came at least 10, probably 15, years before VNC. > > Even Microsoft have realized that remote display is important, > and finally some version of terminal server is now installed > (but, rightly, not enabled) by default on Windows XP Pro systems.
Micro$oft could not even come up with their own implementation, they've licensed the core code from Citrix in the first place AFAIK. However, note how poorly miccies did they Terminal Service -- it's limited to 8 bpp, is really slow, unable to transport sound, etc... The same thing Citrix did gave me far better and pleasant experience. Miccies just suck. X is far more mature, and simply better solution. The *only* thing XFree86 lacks for *me* as FreeBSD user and not Radeon owner, is poor support for Quake3 :) But I do not blame XFree people, I actually do blame nVidia guys, as their MX400 card collects dust on the bookshelf of mine. I cannot stop wondering why they do not just go out and release the specs, bringing a lot more [FreeBSD] people to their products, but that's a whole different story. ./danfe _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
