eXodus? Re: vintage quality

2003-08-21 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Darren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It works using eXodus, requiring 8mb of mac memory and OS7.x or above, the program, soffice in this case, opens in a window on the mac desktop like a normal mac app. So eXodus is a Mac X window client for X running on a unix/linux box? Sorta like Citrix

Re: eXodus? Re: vintage quality

2003-08-21 Thread Terry Mathews
Kinda but not really. X is the standard client-server arch with the exception that it does everything backwards. In X, the server is the display. It runs on the local PC and manages the workspace. Keeps track of the keyboard and mouse and keeps the framebuffer (video card) up to date. The

Re: eXodus? Re: vintage quality

2003-08-21 Thread Darren
Terry Mathews wrote: Kinda but not really. X is the standard client-server arch with the exception that it does everything backwards. There are other methods of establishing an X session, but they go way beyond the scope of this mailing list. :) Thank you Terry. I'd have trouble explaining it.