On 20/02/17 21:35, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> 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.
#
yes, useless, because I also have calibre 'running on a headless
server', I mount the file system and run caliber on a desktop.

100% of all I need to do is dome with a combination of exported file
systems and a terminal.

I looked at running exported X, but it wasn't nearly as slick as e.g.
webmin or phpadmin and friends

>


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