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From: jjs@ix.netcom.com (Jerry Shekhel)
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Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD?
Date: 4 Jan 1995 07:26:07 GMT
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In <3e435p$7ru@galaxy.ucr.edu> jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan) writes: 

>>>
>>>So can you run NT's own clock over the cable to my Linux's 
>>>X screen ? If you cannot, NT is not capable of running X. It is simply
>>>pretending to be able to do so.
>>
>>So can you run some SVGALib-based Linux program over the cable to another 
>>Linux machine's X screen?  If you cannot, Linux is not capable of running X. 
>>It is simply pretending to be able to do so...
>
>Jerry, jerry - why the sarcasm? the man has a point - and don't trot out
>that old svgalib trick again! remember X is one thing, svgalib is another
>thing entirely..
>

No kidding!  Just like X is one thing, and Win32 is another thing entirely.  
Linux has SVGALib programs that it can't display on an X screen.  Likewise, NT 
has Win32 programs that it can't display on an X screen.  Nevertheless, each 
OS can run X.  Do you understand yet?

>
>you can't get around the fact that NT was designed as a
>single-user system,
>

No offense, but you're full of it.  If you can say with a straight face that 
NT was designed as a single-user system, you don't know the first thing about 
it.  Please stop talking about NT until you know a bit about it; the 
embarrassment you save will be yours.

Jerry
jjs@ix.netcom.com