Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell wrote:
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 10:32:27AM -0400, Jay Daniels wrote:
What was the verdict on using a single Linux box with X on DSL or
Cable?
Does the redhat-config-securitylevel tool block ports X uses?
Is there an X Windowing system that doesn't uses ports?
Not really. X-Windows uses networking.
However X is happy to use only the 127.0.0 localhost (loopback)
network and does not need to connect to or accept connections
from networks to the outside world.
Not to nitpick, but we just had a thread about this. X11 mostly uses
UNIX domain sockets for local communication (file-based, they reside in
"/tmp" if you're curious). TCP-based communication (i.e. "using ports")
is disabled by default in Fedora.
Jeremy
