Richard X-windows amazes me as well, It is so bandwidth hungry With the rise of thin computing I wonder why there isn't an open source project to do a 'terminal server' with linux (There are commercial ones), but the bugbear is XWindows (and don't mention VNC it isn't a lot better), Thin Client protocols go X, VNC, RDP & ICA. Now there are a lot of RDP/ICA Devices out there an X to ICA Proxy would be great, keep X local (where is performs fine) and use comerical ICA Devices for display
N ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Vowles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of list delphi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 10:32 AM Subject: RE: Fw: [DUG]: octane > > > I don't like think I like his remark about Linux on the desktop though. > > > The latest KDE or Gnome are much nicer to use than Windows XP with its > > > Fisher Price baby toy look and feel. > > But, er this is configurable. Fisher Price is good for a lot of people as > that is exactly the level of competence they are at. The KDE and Gnome > environments are also an attempt to cover up an extremely bad windowing > system - aka X-Windows - which is probably the most appalling windowing > product in existence short of one I'd write myself. It is slow, cumbersome, > badly supported with device drivers, excruciatingly difficult to set up if > you are not bulk-standard (depending on whose distribution what bulk > standard means) and has the performance of a pig with two legs. Until > X-Windows is replaced with something half decent, IMHO, Linux will always > bite on the desktop for the average user. > > > I think the main reason people put > > > down Linux on the desktop is the security (which is missing from > > > Windows), people have a fit just because you need to go to the command > > > line and switch to root to install things, unlike Windows where you can > > > just browse to the wrong website and have endless crap installed onto > > > the system. <sigh> > > Well, surprisingly this feature isn't limited to Linux. I use Mozilla for > browsing and most email reading (Lookout is the standard at Borland, I have > little choice in it) - so I don't suffer the problems that are mentioned > here and relate specifically to IE. > > Now on the server side, well - would I use anything else? :-) > > Richard > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz > To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with body of "unsubscribe delphi" > Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/
