The neat thing about X is that you can export the display for *your* applications and leave local users undisturbed. With a Dual Core and loads of memory, chances are they won't even notice that you're running stuff on their box.
And while I could in theory run X on the Mac too, as pointed out by krischik, it doesn't help me a lot if stuff I want to export to my own display are native OSX apps like XCode and the software I am developing with it.
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But network transparency? You're fighting the wrong battles here. That is so true. Using Macs myself since a couple years. I have a recent MacBook Pro (mostly occupied by my wife) and an iBook G3 left for my stuff. While I can ssh into the MacBook Pro and do command line stuff fast, I so wish I could simply
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The neat thing about X is that you can export the display for *your* applications and leave local users undisturbed. With a Dual Core and loads of memory, chances are they won't even notice that you're running stuff on their box.
And while I could in theory run X on the Mac too, as pointed out by krischik, it doesn't help me a lot if stuff I want to export to my own display are native OSX apps like XCode and the software I am developing with it.
export DISPLAY=skarabrae:0.0
and get actual work done fast!
Network transparency is *the* feature of X.
I guess gecko will replace khtml, the kde html engine only. That wouldn't affect any other functionality of konqueror. Kai