Bernie wrote:
>
> Yes, of course everyone wants a www-server in
> their palmtop, I never thought of that ;-)
We were talking about palmtops AND embedded devices.
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Posted by CmdrTaco on Saturday August 15, @09:51AM
from the idn't-cuuute? dept. Jeff Gehlbach writes
"Technauts has unveiled a tiny (8"x8"x1") P100-based
personal-pan-pizza-box departmental-strength server
running home brew mail and web servers over Linux.
This thing is amazingly tiny."
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> And graphical www-clients for Linux (non-X) are
> easily counted
Since the vast majority of Linux applications choose
to use X for displaying hi-res graphics, it is not
surprising that you find few non-X graphical clients.
> so IMHO there aren't that many clients for Linux.
No, this doesn't follow. There are many, many clients
for Linux. Some are non-graphical (and don't use X) and
some are graphical (and use X). Take your pick.
> Otherwise we can say that all Windows programs are for
> DOS,
No, this doesn't follow. X is not an operating system.
It's just a method of displaying hi-res graphics. When
you run Netscape, it runs under Linux. You don't actually
need X on that computer to run Netscape. I sometimes run
Netscape on a non-X computer and pipe the display (via
TCP/IP) to another computer (which uses X to display it).
> Most users aren't interested in that (configuring)
But the manufacturers (of palmtops and embedded devices)
are very interested in a highly-configurable operating
system. Linux is non-proprietary and open-source, so
it gives developers total control over the code.
> Wasn't one of the most frequent questions regarding
> Linux how to get BackSpace to perform a BackSpace
> (in the CLI) not that long ago?
This is easily configured, but it depends on whether you
have a PC keyboard, a mac keyboard, a terminal keyboard,
or something else. Linux runs on many different kinds
of hardware, and sometimes the keybindings need a bit of
tweaking.
Cheers,
Steven
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