Ubuntu moving away from X

[Jerry Feldman]

On 11/05/2010 07:26 PM, Mark J Dulcey wrote:
> I understand that argument (not quoted). But I also understand the way =

> that most people think of clients and servers. A server is a distant=20
> thing that does something for you, and a client is something that you=20
> operate to get the server to do something. But in X terminology you sit=
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> in front of a server and connect to a client. The X client runs on a=20
> server computer, and the X server runs on a client (i.e., desktop)=20
> computer. Backwards.
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It is certainly NOT backwards. Possibly from the way some people think.
In a single Unix or Linux system you have a number of servers running,
including X. The basic issue is that the X process is a server by all
definition. It's just that some people think of servers as a piece of
hardware sitting in some computer room. So, if a Windows user in my
office wants to run our company's products, it must run an X server
(exceed), then pring up a putty window on once of our Linux or Unix
servers and run the program. So, in this case the X client runs on a
server. The X terminology is perfectly correct from a software
engineering standpoint. In this example, exceed is simply a server
process on the Windows machine. The issue is not that the terminorlogy
is right or wrong, but that the average Windows user's perception is wron=
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