On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 08:32, Alan L Tyree wrote: > On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 08:21, Visser, Martin (Sydney) wrote: > > What is the current consensus? > Not exactly your point, but I have been looking to do this to provide > decent email for my wife's machine. It is an older laptop and takes > quite a while to boot and start Evolution. My new machine has a lot more > grunt than I need. Seems an ideal solution to step back in time with a > "mainframe" and an X-teminal.
I did this all the time with my P233 laptop and ssh -X. I then found out how easy it was to enable gdm to serve up xdcmp and start X looking for it. No encrypt decrypt on transmission, local network behind firewall so security is not an issue to me. Perfect. KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
