Re: x11 instead of aqua
Re: x11 instead of aqua
- Subject: Re: x11 instead of aqua
- From: Patrick Coskren <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 14:08:19 -0400
On Jun 9, 2004, at 3:02 AM, Wolf Schweitzer wrote:
A colleague started Gimp on my G4 / dual proc. 1.25 GHz / 2 GB RAM,
while
sitting at his Linux portable computer, as X-windows client. That
means, the
application runs on the G4, and serves the display output to the
X-client. He
said he'd never seen Gimp start THAT fast ...
So, X is no stopgap!
If you install Matlab on a Mac with lots of memory, you can use X
windows to
run a couple of Matlabs, on that particular Mac, from any other Mac
with X11.
That means, you can run Matlab with a full 8 GB RAM access (soon,
hopefully),
while sitting at an iMac with 512 MB RAM, and still work as if things
were
going on on your own computer. And you can have more than one person
do that
and take advantage of that workstation that you bought.
Okay, I'll grant that if you've got a really powerful server sitting
someplace and you want to run apps remotely, X is good stuff. I don't
mean to diss the technology wholesale.
*But* for the vast majority of applications that don't require this
model, a native interface is preferable. To use the MATLAB analogy,
when I need to do heavy-duty stuff, I log in to the SGI and display
here on my Mac. But when I'm doing the 90% of stuff that isn't that
computationally intensive, it's local to my machine, and I'd switch to
a native Mac solution in a second. I stand by my assertion that an X
interface is going to limit your audience to the serious power users.
This is less of a problem for things like MATLAB that are power user
programs to begin with.
Basically, X is something different, and I'm happy it's on Mac OS X :-)
Oh, certainly. I did cartwheels when Apple folded it into the OS. In
addition to your point, the sheer amount of Unix compatibility it
brings is a dream.
-Patrick
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