Re: [cobalt-users] Fwd: Eazel Newsletter

[Kris Dahl <krislists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 8/18/00 12:37 PM, Patrick Béart at patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> At 11:59 AM -0700 8/18/00, Kris Dahl wrote:
>> on 8/18/00 11:04 AM, Patrick Béart at patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>> FYI.  (http://www.eazel.com/)
>>> 
>>> Perhaps someone at Cobalt (I'm not experienced enough) could
>>> recompile this wonderful program and turn it into a ".pkg" file for
>>> our collective use.
>> 
>> Correct me if I am wrong, and I don't think that I am, but Eazel is an
>> desktop implementation using Gnome.  X insn't installed on the Cobalt,
>> niether is Gnome.  Hell, they are headless machines.
>> 
> 
> O.K., if I'm wasting time/resources by providing this
> information, I apologize to the list.
> 
> Because the Cobalt servers don't COME with X or Gnome, does
> that mean that you can't install them on one?

Well I suppose you *could* but you would have to do it all via remote which
would pretty much defeat the purpose of having Easel.  Easel is mostly
(completely?) client-side enhancements, right?

Are you wanting to run remote X apps, or what is it that you want to do?  Or
rather what is it that you would like Easel to do for you?

-k