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Technology Stocks : LINUX -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E. Charters who wrote (2348)	10/24/2000 8:42:50 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2615

>it takes 1200 lines of C ..>>> Look at Interviews Most likely many others. All come with source. No programmer with half a brain reinvents the wheel. There are hundred of source code examples of all kinds of X programs. X exists today. X runs on all Linux and Unix platforms. Today linux has standardized the X so that clients don't care about servers and servers don't care about clients. That means that any Linux box or X terminal can function as a gui interface to any Linux or Unix running at any OS revisions. X's existing today, inter-operability is a major productivity point and I can't see any argument why anyone would want to create a non standard gui. Why give up inter-operability to save resources that are not used 98% of the time anyway. What am I doing right now? I answering a post using netscape 4.72. I sitting at the dual display terminal of system acute. This session of Nescape is being displayed in browser window 1 of four open browser windows of this sessions. Now this Session is located in desk5 of display 0 on system acute. This Session is running on system twent in another room. I have five different Linux boxes running different distribution at different kernel levels. I also have a laptop running 1994 redhat 3.03. From any I can log into any and display to any. The X running on my 486-33 laptop functions as well as a 200 meg pentium when with it 20 meg of memory it display graphically a process running on one of the five other networked Linux boxes. With X there is so much beef I've got to be careful about high cholesterol. Tom Watson tosiwmee