Linux - perfect replacement for desktops

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Yo, homey, in case you don' be listenin', Tom Aldridge done said:
> I guess it's somewhat off the original subject, but I am wondering 
> Walter, if your users will also be running filePro sessions via 
> gnome-terminal, xterm, Putty (for Linux) or other, from their desktop 
> back to a server running linux filePro?
> 
> I've been doing that very thing at numerous locations for several years 
> but have never been completely happy with the emulation. Therefore, I am 
> interested in what others are doing for filepro users in terms of 
> terminal emulation for users running Linux desktops.

I second Jay's question.  What, specifically, is missing from the above
solutions that you need?  There were at -least- five different xterm types
in 1995.  That number has grown with all the newer unified desktop packages.
Maybe you haven't hit the right one yet, but you won't know what to look
for (or have anyone help) unless you cite what's lacking in the previously
tried solutions.

> I suppose the answer is that many of you have build web based front ends 
> using Mark's OneGate for example. I don't feel I have the time or 
> sophistication for that.

Many?  Not many.  Not few, either.  It's all relative.

But you're right about time.  I've done web integration work with fP since
1995, in a number of languages, using several models.  OneGate is by far
the best, but even with what that saves me, there is considerable design
time in creating any UI and making sure the original logic works with it,
or writing it wholesale to run in parallel.  The time and expenditure is
non-trivial.  OneGate is actually the inexpensive part of the solution if
you do it at a low level, right against the adapter that makes it easy.  
The big part is really design.  The coding itself is not any more or less
difficult than for native fP, once you're used to the model.  There are
design considerations, however.

Now, as we were discussing yesterday, there are RAD capabilities coming
that ride on top of OneGate.  I honestly have to take the "tour" sometime
soon and see just how fast and easily one can go from zero to ready with
that kind of high-level kit perched on top.  And that shouldn't require
near the level of sophistication (per se...your term) to "get there".

I guess it's best to break it down into two fundamental questions:

1) What do you want to do that you currently can't?
2) What have you previously tried, and why has it been unacceptable?

Answer those, and you have something with which to narrow your search.

mark->
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