On Tuesday 24 August 2004 22:32, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > I know about pxes, and it's indeed cool, if it fulfills your needs, > that is, if you want "thin clients". But from reading about it (I > didn't try it) it's not a solution if what you want is a full-fledged > Unix workstation, e.g. what you get when doing the default install of > most of the general-purpose distros.
After using both pxes and thinstation for 2-3 years I can testify that both provide you with full capabilities since your session runs on the server (which contains the distro of your liking). The missing piece with these is "remoting" of local devices. The current solutions are: - DISPLAY via X11, VNC, rdesktop, etc. - Sound via esd (arts can also use esd) so it covers most applications (including SDL_sound games :-) - Block devices via nbd. The missing pieces (IMO): - Handling removable media (haven't found a way to handle this via nbd). - Other common hardware, like local USB devices. -- Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron ICQ UIN: 16527398 "Complaining that [Linux] doesn't work well with Windows is like ... oh, say, evaluating an early automobile and complaining that there's no place to hitch up a horse." Daniel Dvorkin, July 28, 2003 ================================================================= 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]
