On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Kris Van Hees wrote: > 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). >
If you want a real Linux desktop on your zBox, you can also use XFree on it. I have my virtual (Herc) L/390 setup that way, just like my real IA32 boxes. The client machines run X -query server,example.com to connect to XDM or whatever on server,example.com. However, I'd not reccommend this as a good way for general users to use the system. If you want lots of users using X on a server, then almost anything else is better: an X440, a pBox, an iBox or even a Sunny Box. -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
