Re: Yikes.....I haven't heard ANY useful answers to this question...please help!
It's a shame to lose X11. The "X over the network" has long been one of the coolest things about unix boxes.
When I started using Linux distributions about 28 years ago, the development goal seemed to be to make Linux distributions similar to commercial unixes like Ultrix, HP-UX, and Solaris. And the developers made a great job of it. RHEL was a really good system by about 2007.
Now Linux has effectively killed off all the commercial unixes. Maybe the guys who develop Linux nowadays have never used them or don't remember them. The goal these days seems to be to make Linux distributions work more and more like Windows. They get less unix-like and more windows-like with every release.
I've given up on RH and Ubuntu and gone back to Slackware, which seems to be the most unix-like of the modern distributions.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
