On Sunday, Hal Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
] Does anyone know of a DOS based X server that uses the free packet
] driver? I am looking for a way to set up 386/486 clunkers to boot
] from a floppy and fire up X and then run all applications remotely
] on a Linux server. This is for a school with NO money.
There is a port of XFree86 to DOS, in simtelnet/msdos/xwindows.
[ie ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/xwindows/ or
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/simtelnet/msdos/xwindows/ IIRC]
But unfortuneatley it doesn't seem to be free. I downloaded it not
long ago to have a look. There seems to be a time-limited (30 days)
demo. I don't know how much it costs to register, but they *may* give
it to you (for either nothing or close to it) since you are using it
for a school.
You'll need a fairly beefy Linux server to be running several copies
of most GUIs. (AFAIK netscape 4 can take well over 20MB RAM per copy,
so you'll need a lot of RAM and HDD there) The actual terminals dont
run anything except the X server, which really (apparently) needs
4-8MB RAM and SVGA graphics.
As I said I haven't tried this yet, but I have used X-Win32 on a
500MHz P][ with WNT, (the computer running everything was a DEC alpha
box). This was at uni, and it took several seconds for the netscape
and matlab windows to update themselves, over the LAN. I expect it'd
be quite slow over anything slower.
With this setup I just telnetted to the machine (running bash), typed
export DISPLAY=1.2.3.4:0.0
and ran the graphical program I wanted. (replacing 1.2.3.4 withh my
IP at the time)
But with the DOS you might have to fool with rsh or something, which
I don't really know much about.
HTH.
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