On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 07:30:10PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
>
>I just got the news that SCO will port Tarantella to Linux..
>
>Can someone tell me what is Tarantella?
When I installed it 2 years ago, Tarantella was an X server written in Java.
You'd connect to a web server using a Java-enabled browser, and after
some download time [fast on a LAN], you'd have an X/unix desktop within
your browser window: the X server as a local Java process and all the
rest of the desktop displayed locally but running remotely.
The absurd use would be to start from unix on a local machine, fire up
netscape, start a Tarantella X server with the X clients (the applications
including the window manager, xterms, netscape and all) running on some remote
unix machine. Then inside that last netscape, start another Tarantella server
and continue.
Picture this:
- a local X desktop (the X clients, wm, browser and all)
- inside which a Java browser is running
- inside which an X server is running
- ... displaying a remote X desktop (the X clients, wm, browser and all)
- ... inside which a Java browser is running
- ... inside which an X server is running
- ... ... displaying a remote X desktop (the X clients, wm, browser and all)
etc ..
The marketing pitch behind Tarantella in the company was to allow a
"cheap" unix desktops based on NT boxes to replace the Sun boxes that were
there on the trading floor.
The Tarantella server [it allows you to login, gives you the Java-based
X server and, by default, acts as a remote host for the X clients] was
running on Solaris.
alex
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