On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > > I personally have an old SGI Indy, that I got for almost free, and I only > use as an XTerminal (for the 300Mhz Celeron "server"). It has a 133Mhz > R4600, with speed comparable to a 100Mhz Pentium, but is quite good > as an XTerminal (with a quite good 19" monitor). And, to answer Michael's > question, Irix runs on it better than Linux for now, so I run Irix and > wait (maybe forever, there is not too much activity on Linux for Indy).
One small feature of linux (at least of x86 linux ?) that I find gravely missing with a simple Irix/Solaris/hpux when used as an X terminal is the virtual consoles. On linux you can have more than one terminal simultaniously. So on a room with several people you could setup three X servers on three different consoles (or something similar). And you could also allow local sessions (although that may not be welcome. Anyway, removing the local getty-s from inittab is easy). -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
