On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 22:48:54 +0000
The Natural Philosopher  wrote:

> 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.

 Hmm so trains are useless because some people drive cars to get
from a to b ?

 Here is a *very* simple point for you - in order to export a
filesystem you need root access to the machine holding that filesystem, in
order to run an X application on a remote machine displaying on a local
machine all you need is a login on both. I could just as easily run calibre
for a thousand users my way and none of them would even be able to see
anything but their own collection. Your way would require a thousand
exports and anyone would be able to mount any export unless you restricted
the exports to specific clients.

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

 So *you* do not use it means that it is useless no matter how many
other people find it useful ?

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