On 22 February 2011 13:45, Nick Copeland <nickycopel...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> ATM it doesn't even provide network transparency. Which means you can't >> even do the equivalent of ssh -X. > > Does anybody even use this feature anymore?
All the time. It is an essential remote administration tool in the UNIX (increasingly Linux) world. I have no idea how I could live without it. > > It is another pet beef, though. Most Linux desktop distributions disable the > TCP connections to the X server anyway so the features of '-X' are rendered > obsolete. And I always enable it back when this happens... > There are naturally good reasons for this: if audio people are concerned > about > system security aspects of RT_PRIO and SCHED_FIFO/RR then the TCP access > issues are an even greater concern. Based on the fact that a generation of > users don't see the point, windows doesn't do it, iOS doesn't do it then > there is > not a lot of point that Linux carry the flag for a solution to a problem > that > people don't have anymore. At least once in the recent past I used Ardour over ssh -X (over a fast network) to make use of a relatively powerful remote machine I was using for testing. Security issues are IMO better handled by a separate firewall between you and the internet - in your own LAN, why not enable TCP access? It already saved my butt more than once. Windows doesn't do it - so what? Are we going to downgrade all our tools? Mind you, Windows doesn't even ship with a compiler. Tom _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev