The following sumary only reflects some of what went on during the meeting.
- Healing wishes to the fellow who just started Radiation therapy.
- The saga continues: Once again, we could not get the capuccino machine working with the wireless USB interface. This time the kernel source was no complete and we could not trick the driver to compile a good version.
We were promised next month the machine will come with RedHat's latest "nueve" and the kernel sources installed.
- Latest addition to hamlug set of notebooks, a Compaq Presario "something", with JBL speakers and ripped movies, we were told it was a great deal (around $800), but it is a shame the movies only used 1/3 of the screen. We were promised a guide on what's needed to do to install Linux on it... we are waiting...
- Wayne came a little late, started his Dell notebook and kept working on his "secret project". I hope he is not installing Win..s in the system and he does not want us to know it.
- For anyone interested, we learned there is going to be a UFO conference this weekend in BorderTown, check out:
https://DrUFO.org
- We also learned about http://linuxvm.org/penguinvm/hercules/
Which is an emulator that lets us run a S390 OS under linux, for example: Linux/390
A question came up: can we run multiple hercules in a multiprocessor x86 machine?, and if we can, can they talk to each other?
Who dares to test that ?
- At last, there was also a question of running KDE on a machine (a real 390 for example, where you don't want to load it up with an X server), but displaying it on a PC running Linux and an X server.
I tried it, and it works!!!.
A little tweeking: On the Server: - enable inittab to run on level 5 so the the windows manager can come up. - I'm using KDE, so I have /etc/sysconfig/desktop: DESKTOP="KDE";export DESKTOP - modify the Xservers configuration (/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers in RedHat) to only have (comment everything else): alfa4:2 foreign
(where: alfa4 is the remote PC running an extra X server at DISPLAY number 2)
On the remote PC:
Run an extra X server by: /etc/X11/X :2 -ac vt8
this will run X on display 2 with no access control and places it on virtual terminal 8 (CTL-ALT-F8)
You can have as many X servers running this way as your machines memory allows.
In theory we could have the second X server automatically run by configuring it in the LOCAL PC's Xservers file, but it did not work on my RedHat 7.2
That is all, now you would see a KDE login in vt8 welcoming you to the remote machine. Once you login, all KDE clients are running remotely displaying in the local PC.
Please note that X traffic is still moving in the network and it can be a lot.
Other alternatives like vnc would not work as VNC runs the X server in the machine (which is what we are triyng to avoid)
The above is not dealing with port filtering or FW installed in the machines that could block the Network traffic. FYI: X traffic for DISPLAY 0 uses: TCP 6000, DISPLAY 2 TCP 6002, etc.
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