Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 22:16:30 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: BSDi Acquired by Embedded Computing Firm Wind River Message-ID: <001001c0c30f$bb6d4480$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <15060.35576.658846.592778@guru.mired.org>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: Mike Meyer [mailto:mwm@mired.org] >Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 9:49 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: questions@freebsd.org >Subject: RE: BSDi Acquired by Embedded Computing Firm Wind River > > >Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> types: >> In a purely UNIX shop, I'd expect that the desktops would indeed be >> running X Servers, and that the server systems would be running X >> client programs. In a purely Windows shop, I'd expect the desktops >> to be running user interface application programs, while the server >> systems ran back-end processing like SQL, file serving, mail, etc. >> In both shops, the desktops are primarily concerned with user >> interface code, while the servers are doing the real work. > >I've never seen a unix shop - pure or otherwise - set up as Ted >describes. That's pretty much the X-term model, and I have seen sites >that use a lot of them. I've also known people who ran their X window >manager on the server because they got quicker responses that way, but >that doesn't make it a common practice. The advantages that accrue to >centralized servers for home directories, mail, print, SQL, ans such >like exist just as much in Unix as they do in Windows. I'm missing something here - everything your saying is exactly the X model. To be honest though, I've never seen a pure UNIX shop at all, every one I've seen that claims to be a UNIX shop always has Windows systems stashed in corners here and there. But, I'm assuming that they must exist, after all Sun and HP sold a heck of a lot of X terminals at one time and that hardware went somewhere. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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