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Re: displaying Windows program on Linux via ssh / X?
* Tomasz Chmielewski (2005-06-14 22:37 +0100)
>> You are making an assumption that MS Windows was designed as a networked
>> windowing system. It's not. It's not Cygwin's fault nor X windows fault
>> rather it is MS' fault in that their concept of GUI windowed apps is not
>> cleanly divided into the client/server paradigm.
>
> No, I don't make any assumption that MS Windows can "stream" the display
> in a client/server mode [...]
WTF? Windows applications simply aren't X clients. That's all.
For the "superiority" of the X window server/client concept you may
have a look at http://pepper.idge.net/disaster.html
The first thing everyone notices about this disaster is the braindead
exchange of the client/server terminology every else uses in
computing.
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