On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 11:54, Richard Hayes wrote: > With the price of 10/100 Nics retailing at $12 each and a 10/100 8 port switch > retailing at $75, networks are not the issue. Thinking about what you are > trying to achieve is much more important.
Yes, it is true, you can run X across a network. It is technically feasible and working in some example sites. Yes it can be made more economical for big rollouts although hardware cost is not a big issue with most corporates. I completely understand, if cost is the main issue why it is used. I agree with most of what has been said except that you still have a choke point. I want to write an Open Office document for the morning. There are network problems (or even server problems). If I run my apps and desktop via a server and remote X I'm cactus. True I might need network resources to write that document but I might not so lack of a network is not necessarily going to stop me (unless I run X remotely). There are numerous examples of solitary work I can do if my desktop is without network for a period of time. Now lets multiply say 400 desktops times a morning without a network running remote X. Thats 1600 hours. A person-year of work is 1800-2000 hours (manufacturing background showing) Hmm.. how cheap and easy was remote X again? Oh and by the way, the CEO wants a word... Since desktop PCs are cheap and most businesses are comfortable with buying the _with hard drives, why not use some of the excellent projects out there to auto-copy the relevant standard software to each and auto-config. FAI strings to mind. Remote X fills a great niche and I'm very glad it's there for us to offer. FWIW Stu On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 11:54, Richard Hayes wrote: > On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 11:46 pm, Ken Foskey wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 09:55, Stuart Guthrie @ SLUG wrote: > > > I agree with Luke for a different reason. > > > > > > The other problem with centralising X is network bandwidth. All of the > > > graphics have to pass to and fro which means you need both high > > > bandwidth low latency and no network problems. > > > > > > This makes the network a choke point to be watched and will put off some > > > people. > > > > you might want to look up lbx. > > > > 10 Mb is a large network for quite a few PCs so dont underestimate what you > > can do. > > With the price of 10/100 Nics retailing at $12 each and a 10/100 8 port switch > retailing at $75, networks are not the issue. Thinking about what you are > trying to achieve is much more important. > > regards, > > Richard Hayes > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
