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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:32667 comp.os.386bsd.misc:4621 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!bonkers.taronga.com!peter From: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD? Organization: Taronga Park BBS Message-ID: <D1n21J.7rq@bonkers.taronga.com> References: <SLAVITCH.94Dec30100701@deanna.development.bcsc.bell.ca> <NEWTNews.32288.788808358.muzaffer@omer1.smixedsignal.com> Date: Fri, 30 Dec 1994 19:27:18 GMT Lines: 18 In article <NEWTNews.32288.788808358.muzaffer@omer1.smixedsignal.com>, <muzaffer@smixedsignal.com> wrote: >Normally people don't need to run their apps over the network (because of >performance and ease of use reasons) but when you have such a need (like >running a FES program on a Cray) you can write that for X and use it with >NT already. I much prefer to run my apps over a network for performance and ease of use reasons. Why would I want a hot 300 MHz CPU and big noisy disk drive (have you heard DEC's RZ26L drives? I think the L stands for Loud) just so I can run NT-Alpha applications on my desk? I'd much rather keep the big, hot, noisy, expsensive computer in the computer room and put a cheap diskless X-windows box that just handles the stuff that needs to be local (the display, the keyboard, the mouse) on my desk. We have both environments at work. Given the griping about network backups and licensing and configuration problems, I'm sure glad I manage the X stuff instead of the Windows stuff...