RE: [TCLUG:1267] Why Linux?

["Schlough, Mark" <Mark.Schlough@nmb.norwest.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Christopher Reid Palmer [SMTP:jaymz@acm.cs.umn.edu]
> Sent:	Monday, September 21, 1998 3:43 PM
> To:	Twin Cities Linux User Group
> Subject:	Re: [TCLUG:1267] Why Linux?
> 
> On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Bob Tanner wrote:
> 
> > X is an excellent GUI. What other GUI do you get a client/server
> > architecture by default. But the widget set is ugly. I think the GNOME
> > project will fix that.
> 
> UI design is much, much more than just the appearance of the graphical 
> elements. In fact I'd say that's one of the least important aspects of a
> GUI.
> 
> The client/server architecture is nice, but there are performance issues 
> that X has to deal with.
> 
	[Schlough, Mark]  
	I was reading  in the latest Linux Journal that there is a
compression algorithm for X that gets about a 4x average compression and a
top of 10x compression of the X protocol across the network.  The article
goes on to say that it enables a user to run xterm across a 28.8 modem (if
I'm not mistaken)

	AFAIK, this is impossible with the Win32 API.

	Cheers,

	Mark