Re: FW: XFree86 future

  Don't worry, we're not planning on getting rid of the client-server
model any time soon.  David Wexelblat is correct in the sense that 
the majority of people do not need it, but it's definitely the case 
that some people find it essential.  Not only that, I disagree with him.
I think direct rendered 2D has little to no benefit.


			Mark.


> > From: John_Cuzzola <[email protected]>
> > To: <[email protected]>
> > Date: 3/22/2003 9:05:23 PM
> > Subject: XFree86 future
> >
> > Hello,
> > I am writing this email due to concerns raised in the following article:
> >
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/29881.html
> >
> > primarily the comments of Wexelblat. Of concern is the quote:
> >
> > "I've been working in the Windows world for years now, and client-server
> > display systems are utterly irrelevant to the majority of real-world
> > computer users. X needs to be replaced by a direct-rendered model, on
> > which a backwards-compatible X server can be reasonably trivially
> > implemented"
> >
> >
> > The client-server XFree86 model is the MOST IMPORTANT feature of XFree86
> > in our organization. The ability to easily AND seamlessly run X-apps over
> > a network is an absolute necessity in deployment of thin clients (see
> > www.ltsp.org). This feature is trivially dismissed by
> > Mr. Wexelblat and thus the reason for this email. His opening comment
> > begins with "I've been working in the Windows world for years
> > now" raises an eybrow. Let me
> > stress WE DO NOT USE WINDOWS and I take exception to those who insist on
> > following this path. In reference to the "real world" and XFree86
> > client/server model: we have one of the largest deployments of thin
> > clients with 43 sites and a total of over 1500 computers running
> > purely linux/XFree86 (not dual boot). Please keep this in mind as you
> > continue your development of XFree86. As far as I am concerned you have
> > all done a marvelous job with it and I wish the developers all the best
> > and continued success. Thank-you
> >
> > www.sd73.bc.ca/tux
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