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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-was.dfn.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!news-lei1.dfn.de!news.urz.tu-dresden.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: 31 Mar 1997 19:47:03 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 34 Message-ID: <5hp4bn$b82@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5hcbac$r22@news.gvsu.edu> <333cddd8.1017100@news.sprynet.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:167563 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38278 lcappite@sprynet.com (Goatboy) wrote: > >2. Completely interact with programs running remotely (this includes > > windowing applications.) > > But all these are too slow to be useful if ur on a 14.4 or 28.8. Boy... i even accidentally ran an X11 Emacs on freefall.freebsd.org with the display at home. Sure, it tooks minutes until it was up (i didn't notice what happened, so was much surprised to see the window appearing :). But once running, it just worked, and was at least usable. (I regularly run an X11 Emacs across a single modem link when answering mail remotely.) I have been starting a sendmail application in a WinNT network across an ISDN line (also accidentally, i didn't notice i was sitting in a network `drive'), and while not minutes, it also took 10 or 20 seconds *each time*. They didn't even cache the bits, something even older Unices do properly. They have been loading it every time across the net... Mind you, this was a two-hop ISDN line, not a 25-hop Internet connection with a modem at the end as i'm using to do my FreeBSD work in Concord, California, 8000 miles away. And it was just a sendmail, nothing graphical at all. No, smooth remote operation is something M$ still has to learn. I have to checkout the latest release of the LBX work for my remote FreeBSD work. Maybe i'll switch to an X11 Emacs there, too. ;-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)