On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 15:13 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > On my network there are two machines: baby and blossom. baby has a 900 > > megahertz processor with 256MB RAM. blossom has a 200 megahertz > > processor with 128 RAM. Right now baby has Gentoo 2005.0 and blossom is > > running Red Hat 9. I would like to set up something where my wife can > > log in on blossom (it's my wife's computer) and it connects blossom to > > baby (via the network) I want blossom to act as a dumb terminal, with > > all requests made on blossom going to baby. My wife prefers GNOME, but > > it runs so slow on blossom (that's why she wanted RH9) I'm pretty sure > > there's a way to do this, but I don't know how to start. I know I could > > use Google, but I don't know how to phrase my query. I know that all > > this could be accomplished with ssh, but is there a simpler way? > > > > You want to use blossom as a thin client? Three choices that come to mind > are xdmcp, nx, and vnc. If you want you can use a specialized thin client > distro such as thinstation or ltsp. > > > > > Bonus question: > > > > blossom has a TV card. I'd like to know (if it's possible) how to > > access blossom's TV card from baby. If it matters here's the output > > from running lspci on blossom. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: > > Last login: Sat Jul 9 15:43:50 2005 from baby.espersunited.com > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# lspci > > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 430TX - 82439TX MTXC (rev 01) > > 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 01) > > 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) > > 00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) > > 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 01) > > 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage II+ > > 215GTB [Mach64 GTB] (rev 9a) > > 00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. > > RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)00:10.0 Multimedia video controller: > > Brooktree Corporation Bt848 Video Capture (rev 12) > > > > > > Maybe you can pipe the output of a framegrabber program through netcat? > > Zac
Can you point me to any tutorials/HowTo's about doing this? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
