On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Federico Sevilla III wrote: .. > On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 at 00:22, Orlando Andico wrote: > > Yup yup! got it working na! but with XDM =( No pretty gdm for me. > > So you can fire up the VNC client from any Windows box, connect to your > vncserver which has XDM, log on, and then use X? How many unique > connections (ie: separate login) can this handle? Kewl! :)
Well. All the X apps run on the server. I'm planning to put up an app server to support StarOffice. As I said, our old machines on the 6th floor are too puny to run StarOffice. 32MB and 64MB boxes, 133 to 166MHz. That's real slow. I'm spec-ing an app server (probably dual 1GHz Pentium-III, 2GB RAM) and gradually transition everybody to it. Benefit is that everyone's files are centralized, their PC's get turned into dumb terminals, less virus issues, we can prolly run our internal mail on the app server too.. best of all, no unauthorized installation of software!! =) I initially will have to support maybe 20 to 30 users. Assuming a budget of 100MB RAM per login, I can get by with 2GB. Anyway there are shared libraries. Note the huge budget due to the requirement of supporting StarOffice. Note, I am NOT doing this out of M$ hatred or Linux over-zealotry. Mozcom HAS tried to transition to StarOffice in the past, and failed -- because of user resistance plus the poor performance on their crappy hardware. Obviously it's the licensing issue now. Software cost is becoming significant. I mean, we'd stay with M$ on the desktop if we could.. but. -- Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mosaic Communications, Inc. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
