On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 21:54, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: > Is this different from VNC? Are there differences in bandwidth > requirements between the different technologies? > Completely, although VNC ALSO uses basic X technology to works.
> And I realize that X uses IP for its messaging (thus making > dissemination possible). But isn't that part of the technology used > in LTSP? If not, is there a "program" that sets up dumb terminals to > appear to be linux terminals? > You want a dumb X Terminal? Replace the line in /etc/password as follows rich:x:509:100:Richard Stallman:/home/rich:/bin/bash with rich:x:509:100:Richard Stallman:/home/rich:/usr/X11R6/bin/xinit :) Or some minorly changed version of this with the .xintrc file properly constructed. OR you can just alter inittab accordingly. NYU used to have hundreds of X-terminals all over the school which where insecure. My student workers had a ton of fun making nude photos of students and teachers pop up on them at random from their development workstations by telling the gimp to execute locally and display around the school. Oh those were the days.... Ruben > I know little about this, but am curious. > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
