Re: What is an IBM Power Server really?

Ublu running on IBM i in windowing mode with the window appearing via X
Windowing System on my Mac OS X desktop with XQuartz:

http://softwoehr.com/softwoehr/images/ublu_under_i_X.png

On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 8:52 AM, Jim Oberholtzer <
midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I don't believe anyone has ported GNOME to Power64 at this point, but I've
got Access Client Solutions running from an X11 server (learned how to do
it
at POWERuP18) so now I can SSH into customers that will not allow 5250 to
escape the firewall (even with VPN) and still get everything I need.
Navigator for i, 5250, HMC access, etc..


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Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects


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Subject: Re: What is an IBM Power Server really?

On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 8:50 AM, Jim Oberholtzer
<midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

IBM i has supported X11 for some time. I understand almost no one
uses it but it's there.

Interesting! So, I don't know a lot about Unix and Linux GUIs myself.
I don't know how much more work it is to get something like GNOME working
on
the i. When I was an undergrad, I heard people talk about X (on what were
extremely high-powered workstations at the time) and assumed that *was* the
GUI. But as I do a bit of quick reading now, I see it's more like
scaffolding, and much more needs to be fleshed out before you get to
something close to a Mac or Windows PC.

I don't mean to move the goalposts. And I'm certainly not out to prove that
the i is lacking in any way. Indeed, leveraging the browser is in many ways
a better approach anyway, and that has been happening on the i, and
continues to gain momentum on the i. So I'm not complaining and I'm not
putting down the i. I'm just trying to address the question of whether it
has a GUI.

John Y.
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