Amicygnix in Network/Misc ??

I wonder why Amicygnix is located in the Network/Misc section.
Maybe moving it to Emulation/Misc is better or into a new Emulation/X11 section.

Just a thought...

AmiCygnix is not an emulator.

Is it a network application?

Definitely not networking.

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It was hard to decide, in which category I should place AmiCygnix. Nothing really fits.
The most important part of AmiCygnix is the X server. Every AmiCygnix program with a GUI connects to this server and so it is a X client. A client can also connect to a X server on a remote machine, which shows the nature of this system more clearly. For the complete data transfer between server and client the network is used.
For this reason I put it into the network category.

(And as orgin said, it is not an emulator )

It should be under some top level "unix" heading, IMO.

Lawrence

Yes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System

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Read again, they say:
- network protocol is only a part of the sentence which says "computer software system" too
- all this is only a basis for GUIs and rich input device capability. Only a basis, not the whole thing!

To me it's an emulator, it allows you to run software that won't run through workbench. it has it's own "OS", desktop and GUI system and is much more unix than amiga therefor an emulator with network capabilities.

It's not an emulator. If it was you wouldn't be able to launch amiCygnix-compiled apps outside of the AmiCygnix environment.

Some sort of "WB replacement" or "GUI" category might be appropriate.

@Severin

I doesn't really matter what it "is to you". The definition of what an emulator is is common knowledge and is easily accessible with a quick search on http://google.com . Just because that common knowledge hasn't reached you personally it doesn't mean that it is incorrect.

IMHO "Emulator" is the closest category (even if it is not *technically* accurate), although it is clear that there is no really suitable category.

Programmers (and other technically minded people) might cry "no, it's not an emulator", but the average person probably won't care when it *looks* like an "emulator" to them.

The best solution would be to create an entirely new category, but I doubt that is on the cards!

There could be a wrapper category, hoping more software could join