Peter Machell wrote: > On 30/03/2006, at 10:28 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> and that its solvable either by ugrading the >> >> network bandwidth, or reducing the amount of data need to be >> transferred >> >> (e.g. by using the RDP protocol for thin client efficient pixel >> transfer - it's just >> >> efficient gui changes across the network, isn't it, ie that >> winconnect thing; > > It's just input and output, no processing, big reduction. > >> apparently its a RFC, so it's not windows specific , what is it ? ) > > RDP is a Microsoft protocol and the server only works on Windows. You > can connect to it from almost any platform though. > >> is there a linux alternative for thin clients , e.g. X window >> system, and a windows >> >> emulator , and using a common data directory in wine with md2 > > You don't need emulation to run an MD2 server because it's just a > file store. I've seen several MD2 installations on Samba servers on > Linux. Syan rdp is excellent but nx is even more efficient. It's remote X with smart caching. MD2 would open under Wine when I tried it last year but it quickly froze with usage (?opening a patient). It may work now but would need extensive testing before you would trust it. David -- For secure communication with the GMC see http://gmc.net.au gpg key Secure Mail (Current 10 February 2005) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 0x9CAE0C53 at keyserver.medicine.net.au _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
