Steven Edwards skrev:
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Ove Kaaven ovek@arcticnet.no wrote:
Sure it might be confusing, because that's not how the logic goes in the Microsoft world. Over there, the big machine acting as Terminal Server thing is the server, and the Remote Desktop client, which provides the actual display, is the client... while on X11, it's the complete opposite. I'm not going to pretend that it couldn't be confusing.
The whole X11 client/server discussion was touched on in the Unix Haters Handbook chapter on X11. I think that reference proves the merit of the argument.
Hmm. Well, I'll take your word for it, I haven't read that and don't plan to, since I'm quite happy with Unix and X11 myself. (Its logic also does make sense to me these days, though that doesn't mean I always understood its architecture. It looks like there's a learning curve to these things, which is why I know it could be confusing to people. Doesn't mean I don't like it. Often, I like confusing stuff.)