Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 09:37:19 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Re[2]: Tiny starter configuration for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011102093719.K35710@k7.mavetju.org> In-Reply-To: <007301c1631d$51fb9c50$0a00000a@atkielski.com>; from anthony@atkielski.com on Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 10:36:45PM %2B0100 References: <00e601c16302$3a03da60$6600000a@columbia> <007301c1631d$51fb9c50$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 10:36:45PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> Andrew writes:
> > Now those are three majorly useful application
> > you've tried right there...
> I disagree. I don't need a clock or eyes that follow my cursor. Most of the
> applications I use that really require a GUI don't run on UNIX, anyway, but
> perhaps there are things out there that I haven't yet discovered (for X).
Maybe you're forgetting a thing about X here: It's designed as a
portable, network-transparent window system. Besides the applications
running on your local machine you can see the graphical output of
applications running on other systems.
In my first job, all I had was an X-terminal. In the beginning I
thought this was a limiting me in my tasks, but shortly after I
found out that it let me concentrate more in my work. It also showed
me that I didn't have to consider the thing what's on my desk as
the computer which runs everything, it was so easy to connect to
another computer (these were the fast ones :-) on which I ran the
application with the (graphical) output projected to my screen. I
also didn't have to worry about graphical applications which were
only running on a HP-UX machine while the rest of the machines were
SunOS and NetBSD: just login and start the application -> the
graphical output came on directly on your screen.
At that job I learned to look further than what's on my own machine
and what's on my own desk. It expanded my view on computers,
networks and security and how these things interact.
I'm not saying that this setup is good for everybody, but its design
let you go further than "this is my computer and that is where my
view of the world will end".
Edwin
ps. and I didn't tell you about the 18 xload-applications showing
up on my monitor.
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