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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
