On 07/28/2009 10:18 AM, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: >> Being strictly an amateur programmer, I've always wondered how many >> people/institutions actually use X for remote display the way it was >> designed to be used. > > Quite a lot. In universities in crowded city centers, it is quite > common to have students work on (fan-less) X terminals, with a large > server pool hidden somewhere in the basement. (Nowadays, the servers > are fairly ordinary PCs running Linux, with a few Solaris machines to > make the older system administrators happy.)...
Very useful info, and thanks to everyone who answered. (I'm afraid to ask how old is 'older'.) (Grad students, maybe?) I'm wondering about the connection from terminal to server, and how much bandwidth would be typical for such a setting. (I'm assuming that college students would spent substantial time watching X-rated videos on their X-terminals ;-) _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg