Re: The future of Gnome?

[Damien Miller <dmiller ilogic com au>]

On Sun, 11 Jul 1999 s335328@student.uq.edu.au wrote:

> From what I can tell, both Linux and Gnome seem to approach things  
> very much from a fat-client perspective. Install heaps and heaps    
> of software in order to do the simplest of things. Now if I'm some  
> guy on a warehouse floor who only uses an inventory application or  
> a personal assistant who only uses a word processor, email and a    
> personal organiser, what do I need with httpd, etc within linux and 
> then this tremendously advanced desktop with ORBs and the like in   
> order to do my work?                                                

You don't.

You run an X server on the client and you GNOME desktop and apps on 
a fat server.

Regards,
Damien Miller

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