JP Toto on Thu, 24 Jan 2002 10:10:42 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] Debian and X


That's interesting. I DO have xfs running. Perhaps I
will try 86ing that and see what resources if frees
up...

--- gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 07:40:41AM -0500, christophe
> barbé wrote:
> > I can't see real 'pro' to use a X Font Server. But
> I can see a few cons
> > (per exemple ressource wasting). 
> 
> The X font server (not to be confused with Irix's
> xfs nor Berkeley's
> xFS, a network file system with distributed backing
> store) makes
> sense if you've got a bunch of (mostly dumb) X
> terminals talking
> to the same X server.
> 
> I agree with Christophe: it's worse than useless in
> a single-machine
> set up. (It's far worse than a resource waste; it's
> a security
> liability.)
> 
> -- 
> gabriel rosenkoetter
> gr@eclipsed.net
> 

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