Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Brand new

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 11:41:23 -0700
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 06:54:30AM -0400, Joseph R. Skoler wrote:
> Sounds like it might be a nice thing in general to run the X server -- I
> suspect other linux apps would do well to run that way.

The vast majority of GUI applications for UNIX-compatible OSes (or, at
least, those UNIX-compatible OSes that don't have the letters "M", "a",
"c", "O", "S", and "X" in their names :-)) will *only* run that way -
the bulk of UNIX systems ("bulk" by number of different operating
systems, not "bulk" by number of machines running them - for all I know,
MacOS X may win on the latter) use X-based GUIs.  (The major commercial
UNIXes not from Apple, the major Linux distributions, and
{Free,Net,Open}BSD all have X-based GUIs as standard.)