On 8/14/07, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, August 14, 2007 12:27 am, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > On 8/13/07, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, August 13, 2007 8:21 pm, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > >> > > >> > I would like to show off the gems remote terminal viewer system about > >> > which I was > >> > posting last week. i.e. I'd like to be convinced that it works ok with > >> > more than one client. So if a couple or three linux laptops could turn > >> > up and have the client software > >> > installed I'd be very grateful. > >> > >> > >> What is gems? I cannot find it in portage (unless it id rubygems?) > > It's neither ruby gems, nor in portage. It's a simple client server > > system which allows a number of clients to view an active command line > > window concurrently. One can thus demonstrate what the varios commands > > do to a geographically diverse audience. > > like screen then?
Not quite. Quoting the web pages of the two projects should elucidate the differences. http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/#TOCintroduction Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells. [ ... ] Whereas http://gforge.lug.fi.uba.ar/projects/gemsd/ The gems system is a client/server application that allows to show a single console session in different computers or terminals in real time. It can also be used to transmit any other kind of data to more than one computer at the same time. Which means that by using gems, one can publish a view of an active terminal to many viewers, without any danger that they can interfere with the machine being viewed. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
