Perhaps the XServer will be part of the monitor, instead of combined into the computer motherboard. Unix and Linux have a confusing graphical user interface. Originally, a terminal was connected to a mainframe over RS232 slow lines. All the terminal did was send characters to the mainframe that did all the thinking, then sent back encoded display characters. This model persists even today with concepts like "controlling terminal," "pseudo-terminal," "background jobs,""session," etc. Then faster ethernet emerged, along with high resolution color displays, and the XServer is really a separate network entity from the operating system; both technically and legally. There is no reason the XServer and graphics chips can't or even should not exist on the display + screen itself. Why fling around all that high frequency EM noise when just pushing a mouse with a button?? There might be some serious innovation going on here. No reason to lug around graphics in a microdevice when a simple plug-in to an X display might offer more flexibility. Then a comfortable resource intensive OS might make complete sense. Erik Anderson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Chuck Cole<cncole at earthlink.net> wrote: > >> Yaron told him on 6/8 that the ARM version of Ubuntu uses a small memory >> model and that didn't sink in at all. > > > One interesting thing I noticed on this: > > On the Parallela website, they state in their FAQ that they're shipping a > CLI-only version of Ubuntu. Given the intended use case for this, that > seems completely reasonable. If I were purchasing a piece of hardware > intended to enable parallel computing software developement, I certainly > wouldn't want a GUI sitting around sucking resources. > > However, in their kickstarter video, they highlight its use as a > HTPC/browsing machine, which obviously requires X. > > They likely included the GUI bits in their video to hook more backers on > kickstarter, which I think is a bit disingenuous for the expresses goal of > the board. > > -Erik > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list