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Linux as a Desktop
slave:
I can't win!
If I start a thread you close it, and if I post in someone else's you threaten to ban me.
My original post wasn't meant to inflame people (obviously it did) it was just my opinion of the major Linux distributions and how I have a problem with their speed. I was saying he could go with either that or the more advanced (gentoo, debian, etc) but they are harder to configure. Debian and gentoo are faster than mandrake and red hat, am I right?? You know some people don't have 1.5 ghz machines with 512 mb ram, and KDE can be a little annoying when you have a 400 mhz machine with 128 mb ram.
Calum:
a lot of your first post was a load of crap, and it was written in such an arrogant tone that people are obviously going to respond.
I am not threatening to ban you, i cannot, and if the webmaster doesn't (and he is a staunch supporter of free speech) then fair enough to you, also i will not be closing any of your threads unless they have racist, sexist, or illegal content.
You've started tons of threads in the last few days that nobody has closed or deleted.
You did not provide any help, all your suggestions were negative, please do think before you post. It's your choice, but people will only ignore you and dislike you if you do not get your so called facts straight and speak to the point in a non-general thread.
voidmain:
Ok, without downloading any *other* software, how do I execute any graphical or non-graphical application on my windows server and have the application displayed on my windows client, utilizing the processing power of my windows server?
Seems, Xwindows has been able to do this since before M$ ever thought about writing a two bit GUI. X11 is still around because it works great, and because it is more capable than *anything* M$ has ever put out. And I can run multiple copies of it on one machine, it can serve desktops out from the server to the clients. It wasn't until recently that M$ "bought" a half baked solution to accomplish only some of the tasks that X11 has always been able to accomplish. That would be Terminal Services and with third party apps from Citrix. I don't have to buy some special server edition of any software to have this capability, I don't have to install any brain dead client software to access the servers. I don't have to pay anyone for this privelage. I can run apps on *any* operating system running Xwindows and display the applications on my Linux client running Xwindows, utilizing the power of the server for resource intensive apps. I have yet to see a better graphical environment. The day it comes out, it will replace X11. But like BSD, it's still around because it was well thought out from the beginning.
[ June 14, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]
Calum:
[a polite round of applause]
i liked that post.
So, M$windows cannot serve multiple graphical environments to multiple terminals? that's pretty useless, but of course it also means that each terminal must actually be a machine itself, and that machine... must be running a copy of Microsoft windows.
So on one hand there are 200 terminals in a building all getting served desktops from one machine requiring the owner of the system to purchase (or acquire for free) ONE EULA,
and on the other hand next door's building has 200 machines serving their own graphical desktops to themselves and only sharing data between themselves, requiring 200 EULAs (and you can bet those will be high priced ones too)...
am i on the right track?
i'm sure everybody here can see the benefits inherent in such a setup...
[ June 14, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]
choasforages:
yes, voidmain you would be correct. but x11 is odd. like the accossing remote machines. and some have come to curse it. but the most fun i had with ssh/x11 /*the window manager, i don't know x11 the person personaly*/ is connecting to my friends computer and configureing it for him, and my way round bess. maybe that will be another howto hehe
ps, i am looking on ebay for an xtermanil, would you happen to know a company that makes a good one??
[ June 14, 2002: Message edited by: choasforages ]
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