16 Mar
2001
16 Mar
'01
19:43
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Mark Evans wrote:
One of the advantages of the X Window system is you can mix and match between "thin" and "thick" clients. As well as having multiple application servers displaying on the same machine.
Yes. You can even go some way towards implementing a variable-weight client and have processes dynamically moved between the client and the server according to current load conditions, if you want to.
A possible problem with thin clients is that the X protocol does not (AFAIK) support sound.
There are extensions that do. Try KDE 2.1 - can't remember the name of the sound server bit off-hand, but it should be easy to find. Michael Brown Fen Systems