Radical idea for X-modmap problem.

[David Gerard]

2009/7/30 Juliusz Chroboczek <Juliusz.Chroboczek at pps.jussieu.fr>:

> In the departments I know, however, this model is slowly dying out.  Now
> that fairly powerful fan-less PCs are available at a reasonable price,
> we've been migrating to netbooted, disk-less workstations (root mounted
> over NFS).  This makes it possible to use things like Eclipse, which
> would overwhelm the centralised servers.


Oh yes. 12W fanless tiny PCs! They make ridiculously overpowered X
terminals ... I use one as the household file server and bedroom video
player. I can just imagine what someone who did X terminals in the
early '90s would make of something that powerful just doing X.


- d.