LTSP is one of many X server options. There is also Cygwin/XFree86. Both are open source options. There are many commercial X server packages from Hummingbird, Labtam and others
X servers would have much lower performance impact on zLinux since the drawing requests are shipped across the network, rather than bitmaps. Personally, I find the idea of running user desktops on zLinux facinating. In the 80's and 90's I was a sysadmin for a large AIX system which had several hundred users. BillG, Sun and Linux managed to persuade the world that one desktop == one user, and the idea of multi-user unix systems dropped out of fashion. It's nice to see the idea comming back. Matthew On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 4:17 AM, Fernando Gieseler <[email protected]>wrote: > Guys, > > You have a idea if the LTSP not fall in this project? > > Is a good choice. > > > http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=lenny&arch=s390&searchon=names&keywords=ltsp > > []' > > Fernando > > > 2009/5/14 Mark Post <[email protected]> > > >>> On 5/14/2009 at 1:44 PM, "Ward, Mike S" <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Are you saying that you can't use a mouse on linux under VM? Or you can >> > but the performance is bad? >> >> You can use a mouse. If you're using one of the Linux desktop >> environments, you almost have to use one. Performance can range from very >> good to very bad, depending on what kind of hardware and network resources >> you have. At BrainShare 2008, IBM had their brand new z10 EC on the show >> floor. It was on the same physical network segment as some of our Intel/AMD >> demo systems. I could run a GNOME or KDE desktop on the z10 and the >> performance difference was hardly noticeable. But, that was a nearly idle >> z10 EC on the same physical network segment. It's not something I would >> necessarily recommend for a production environment, since it can be quite >> expensive in terms of hardware and network resources. Every situation is >> different. You might be able to build a business case for it, or you might >> not. >> >> >> Mark Post >> > >
