On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 18:31:59 +0000
The Natural Philosopher  wrote:

> On 20/02/17 18:07, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:

> >  That is what I mean by network transparency, it was one of the
> > more important design features of X.
> >
> One of the most useless features, except if for some reason you actually
> needed it.

 Such as running GUI applications from headless servers, which I have
done many many times over the last quarter century or so. In my current
setup I have calibre installed in a FreeBSD jail on a headless server,
when I want to run the calibre GUI I just ssh into the calibre account on
the jail and the GUI pops up on my workstation, or if I feel so inclined on
my laptop even when I'm in a different continent using my VPN (yes I have
had cause to do this).

 Useless ? No! Powerful.

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