Just to try things.... I brought up vncserver. I connected to it with vncviewer. I then brought up KDE. (it works) Took 80 MB virtual to bring up KDE. Is taking 20% of an H30 processor just to keep it idling.
For those that don't know, KDE is one of the graphical shells available for Suse Linux. I run it on my desktop at home. Now, for a very, very short period of time, I have a gui interface on the mainframe. Brought up Konqueror (simular to Windows Explorer to go though directories and files.) The gui version of YaST, in all of its gory details. OK....now I know. VNC is complete enough for about any type of "windowing". But it is a resource hog. Might be fine for very limited use, such as DB2 installs, but not for every day use. Of course, other products might be worst. This was a single user test. Perhaps only the first user gets hit with the 20% cpu utilization while any additional user might just "coast" along. Now time to look at the other options discussed. Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting
