On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 08:34:46AM -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 01/31/2009 09:24 PM, Nuno Magalhães wrote: >> [snip] >>> main concern. I guess having an MTA is a side-effect of the whole >>> client/server thing; prejucide or not it's an opinion. >> >> That's Windows-think to say whether a *computer* s a client or server. >> Such a mindset needs to be banished to get full use out of your >> machine. >> >> In the Unix world, *applications* are client or server. The Operating >> System itself is fully capable of running both client and server apps >> at the same time. >> > > No, whether a machine is a client or a server existed long before either > Windows or Unix existed. It is Linux users who are trying to redefine > terms used that way for over 40 years.
actually terms client and server do not correspond to computers but to applications running on those computers. server is a program(usually daemon) providing a service to a client application. referring to a computer as a server just means that it is a computer expected to run server applications to provide services to client applications. it doesn't mean that you can't run a web browser on a server computer. and therefore it doesn't mean you can't run a server application on your notebook, think about syslog, print server etc. mk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
