On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Ove Kaaven <o...@arcticnet.no> wrote: > Sure it might be confusing, because that's not how the logic goes in the > Microsoft world. Over there, the big machine acting as Terminal Server > thing is the server, and the Remote Desktop client, which provides the > actual display, is the client... while on X11, it's the complete > opposite. I'm not going to pretend that it couldn't be confusing.
The whole X11 client/server discussion was touched on in the Unix Haters Handbook chapter on X11. I think that reference proves the merit of the argument. -- Steven Edwards "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo