I'd say that it really depends on what you intend to do. VNC gives you access
to the entire X display as if you were sitting behind the machine with X running
on the console (quite impossible on zLinux of course). Using X11 on your local
PC, you would run X clients on the zLinux instance, letting them display your
actual windows on your local PC's X server. That way multiple users can have
X clients running on the zLinux instance.
So it really boils down to what you want to do. If you need access to the real
X display as it would be on a Linux box, VNC is the way to go, because it is
really just a passthrough service to let you control an X display remotely. If
you just need to run X clients on the zLinux instance, and have them display on
your local machine, X11 itself is the way to go (products like Hummingbird's
eXceed, and other do that).
Hope this helps.
Kris
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 03:24:26PM -0500, Tom Duerbusch wrote:
> I'm getting too many people talking at me....so it's time to bring it
> out to the people that are in the "know".
>
> Some of our Linux users want to use the X11 interface to access
> Linux/390 (Suse 8 under z/VM). Some of them have software already
> installed on their Windows PCs and use it for other platforms. Others
> just need software installed. And I have to have a X11 server
> installed.
>
> Now that I'm on Suse 8, and the install method kind of force the issue,
> I have VNCSERVER installed. On the PC, I have vncviewer installed. It
> seems to me that I have a X11 interface running.
>
> But I'm told by some folks here, that that isn't X11, vnc isn't
> compatable with X11 and there is different software for X11.
>
> I've been told that I need a product such as "cygwin". I've gone to the
> website and when I try to download it, boy is there a lot of stuff that
> would be downloaded. (perhaps I got the options wrong...I just took
> whatever defaults there was) This makes me believe that cygwin and
> vncviewer are quite different animals.
>
> Any comments?
>
> Tom Duerbusch
> THD Consulting
> (trying to limit the number of packages installed, and maintained that
> do the same thing)
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