Case Study: The X Window System Across a Network
The X Window System is an incredibly flexible, portable system. Because it is network transparent, it is easy to run applications on remote machines and display them on your desktop. Figure 5.2 shows my personal desktop.
Figure 5.2. The X Window System makes remote machines seem local.
This desktop is noteworthy because of how complex it really is. The X Window System hides so much of that complexity that it is easy to take it for granted. Here are some facts to consider:
Mutt (the mail program) is running on a remote Solaris machine through an ISDN line. All the text data is encrypted and compressed ...
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