Re: single linux box on dsl?

[Jeremy Brown <jeremy cadre5 com>]

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