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jyo...@oreillyauto.com wrote: > I think another significant factor is that XOrg is no longer being > developed with our usage in mind. In the beginning, XWindows was developed > as a REMOTE display. In an attempt to capture the Desktop PC market, I > think much of the functionality that made XWindows suited for network based > operation has been made a lower priority than the implementation of the eye > candy to keep up with Windows Vista and Mac OS X. Many new features > probably bypass any notion that the information needs to be passed across > the network before display, causing problems with plugins like Flash and > other 3D effects. > > This is partially a long time rant for me because I feel that Business > computing was on a much better path 20-30 years ago in the days of dumb > terminals and the advent of XWindows. It was the PC that derailed much of > what businesses need to stay efficient, and that is visibilty and control > of their business data. It's not valuable to a business to have more eye > candy on their work stations for their office employees. I'm not saying > we should still be on dumb terminals with 80x25 screens or anything. I'm > saying it would be nice to have the expenditures and wasted effort back > that was the transition to PC's and back to Thin Clients. We would have > AMAZING thin clients if business had never tried to depart from this > paradigm. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
