Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 20:06:44 +0400 From: "Eugene" <genie@geniechka.ru> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: X client without X server Message-ID: <3576980122BB4807B7ACD5BC4A8790F8@geniepc2011> In-Reply-To: <1372865169.34030.YahooMailNeo@web165004.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <CA%2Bg%2BBvggCPtF-AMSc_PanaPtBAD2K_TRDgQzdtTrbd-M43QLKw@mail.gmail.com> <201307031317.r63DHQqR034336@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <1372865169.34030.YahooMailNeo@web165004.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
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Hello, It is usually not about disk space (though that is also not exactly free and unlimited either), but about compilation/update delays, ease of management, additional security risks, additional ways to fail for the system as a whole, etc. Not to mention simple elegance. Best wishes Eugene -----Original Message----- From: Bill Tillman Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 7:26 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X client without X server Just my 2¢ worth on this. Sure, one always wants to keep overhead low. But the days of limited RAM, small hard drives, etc...are long since behind us. I remember in 1994 when and IT consultant came in and built a Novell server for us with a whopping 1 GB hard drive. And back then how we thought with a 1 GB hard drive we'd never run out of space. Well these days one could easily run out of space with such a small hard drive. But with today's systems having 2 or 3 TB drives and GB's of RAM, something as trivial as X-Server should not be a problem. If you don't need it, don't run it. But to worry about the space it takes up is kind of a moot point these days. And like some of the other replies mentioned, xterm may not require it, but one of xterm's dependencies may. I run Asterisk routinely on my systems and I'm always amazed at how installing one port requires no less than 38 other ports to be installed as well.
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