Re: [edlug] X Question - running on different machine

[michael calwell <michael.calwell@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

Tim Day wrote:

> You might find this useful:
>
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~zweije/xauth.html
>
> particularly
>
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~zweije/xauth-8.html
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~zweije/xauth-9.html
>
>  
A slightly OT tangent here, and a bit of a rant...

I'll grant you, X is fairly complex. But then it's complex, because it 
it flexible and powerful. Yes, you need a bit of experience with it (and 
maybe a bit of assistance from time to time).

But what gets me is this. Somehow, Windows, and all that Terminal Server 
crap, and then the whole Citrix Metaframe industry, have managed somehow 
to dominate a market that X just DOES. Just like that. And in the 
corporate world of 'managed desktops', with the whole policy and package 
mentality, locked down desktops, roaming profiles etc is just such a 
natural stomping ground for X. By which I mean - in an operation with 
skilled admins, in which the whole look and feel and application 
availability is controlled centrally, KDE, or even one of the more 
rudimentary window managers does exactly all you need.

I suppose things get a bit more tricky and complex when you start 
talking about multiple departments, directory services, localised 
printing etc but again I suppose nothing's insurmountable with some 
courage and bit of inventiveness. One way to look at it is this - if 
some companies put as much effort into in-house development of their 
systems and their system admin as they do to in-house development of the 
applications that run on those systems... it's like - nobody 'expects' 
to buy a core business system off the shelf that does exactly what they 
need, so why do they expect to be able to buy off the shelf the rest of 
their IT setup?




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