Mike Leone on Thu, 24 Jan 2002 10:57:11 -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...

You'll need to configure the font settings yourself then. See the "Font De-uglification" HOW-TO.

> 
> --- 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
> > 
> 
> > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature 
> 
> 
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