9 Oct
2011
9 Oct
'11
7:33 p.m.
On 10/09/2011 10:01 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
How, exactly, is running something in a web browser "more versatile"
than running a purpose-built app with a GUI? WTF?
I think you answered your own question. It's more portable than any app,
etc.
Yes of course. If you want to put up with a crappy user interface.
Get the best of both worlds with a modern (say, post-1990!) windowing
system that actually, you know, knows about networks!
I like it quite a bit, myself.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA
Thin clients
aren't the only place where a network-enabled windowing
system is useful. I have a balls-ass powerful machine on my desktop,
and
I use X11's network capabilities daily. Granted it's more people
like me
(while wearing my "network administrator" hat) than the average
nontechnical end-user, but still, that doesn't nullify the
usefulness of
the capability.
As a sysadmin I've never wanted a GUI tool except, maybe, to consolidate
status graphs, which can be done easily enough without a networked
windowing system. Come to think of it, the web is probably what finally
killed the concept, by implementing it in an unexpected but more
versatile way. I'm a
command line guy, but I do use GUIs for some stuff. I don't WANT
to install the Veritas NetBackup client on my desktop workstation,
though, for example. I run it on the big Sun downstairs, and display it
up here.
Well, there you go. I'd rather not deal with NetBackup :)