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From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten AT thorstenkampe DOT de>
Subject:  Re: displaying Windows program on Linux via ssh / X?
Date:  Wed, 15 Jun 2005 08:47:29 +0100
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* 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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