Re: Some perspective from the cheap seats...

> snapshots and finding the stuff that breaks. Even so formalised test 
> tools help *immensely* to find this stuff *early*, since you can find out 
> with some simple test cases rather than have some user have his kernel 
> panic or his XFree86 install crash before you know there is a problem.

No argument. Smatch found twenty memory leaks in a day for example that
the test sets wouldn't find. Crashme continues to find kernel bugs as
does cerberus and the LSB test set. Crashme has found CPU bugs for
that matter 8)

> system much like PC Anywhere for Windows machines. You can't run a remote 
> VNC application integrated 'seamlessly' into your desktop via VNC (or PC 
> Anywhere). But it does solve the remote access problem in a different 

Thats an implementation issue. Its important to distinguish that from
the bigger question. It isn't the whole story either - cut and paste and
other mechanisms are non trivial aspects of X11.

Alan