On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 02:01:25PM +0300, Oron Peled wrote: > On Tuesday 24 August 2004 22:32, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > > I know about pxes, and it's indeed cool, if it fulfills your needs, > > that is, if you want "thin clients". But from reading about it (I > > didn't try it) it's not a solution if what you want is a full-fledged > > Unix workstation, e.g. what you get when doing the default install of > > most of the general-purpose distros. > > After using both pxes and thinstation for 2-3 years I can testify > that both provide you with full capabilities since your session > runs on the server (which contains the distro of your liking).
This is exactly what I understood. But you do share the server. Would you recommend to David to give 10 people, that used to work on 10 machines, with 10 CPUs and 10*nMB RAM, share one machine, even a bit more powerful? I don't think so. So you might recommend mosix, which will allow using the CPUs and RAM, but will be slower to access data. Or maybe to actually run mosix but somehow (with mfs?) it will run the job on the machine that has the data? Does it really work like this? Well? I guess I should try it again (I did 5 years ago). > > The missing piece with these is "remoting" of local devices. > The current solutions are: > - DISPLAY via X11, VNC, rdesktop, etc. > - Sound via esd (arts can also use esd) so it covers most > applications (including SDL_sound games :-) > - Block devices via nbd. Do you use nbd? Which version? I tried once to play with enbd, and it took quite some time to make it work and then it was very slow. Care to share your experience? > > The missing pieces (IMO): > - Handling removable media (haven't found a way to handle > this via nbd). And did you search for one? Not that I critisize - on the contrary. I do not handle automatically even local removable media, without nbd. I am just curious whether existing stuff (vold, hotplug, etc.) aren't good enough, or you simply didn't have time to invest (because obviously none work out of the box). -- Didi ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
