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Whatever Happened to the Thin X11 Terminals? (2001) (slashdot.org)
14 points by unleaded on June 2, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


My first exposure to Unix was at college in computer labs full of X terminals all logging in to Alpha servers running Digital Unix (it was a DEC school). Then I installed RedHat on my own computer, and didn't even own a computer running Windows for the next 20 years...

Lots of nostalgia for that kind of environment.


You can still do this.

Hey, you could even use a Raspberry Pi as a terminal.

Not sure how the advent of Wayland changes things, but I would hope its creators would have the good sense to still make it possible.


Wayland doesn't support network display like X does. You pretty much just have to use a third party VNC/RDP server on top of Wayland.


Now the application processor is so cheap that Apple puts one in their display out of spite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Studio_Display#:~:text=T....




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