On Sep 15, 2010, at 5:00 PM, Tom Bell wrote:

> On 09/15/2010 12:53 PM, James Knott wrote:
>> Hal Vaughan wrote:
>>> I want to put an embedded system in someone's office.  Embedded
>>> because I don't want them trying to log on or mess with it in any
>>> way.  And the idea is that on that system I'd like to have OOo so
>>> when someone is using Windows or OS X or Linux, they could somehow
>>> run OOo on the embedded system, yet have the display show on THEIR
>>> computer.
>>> 
>>> 
>> That's easy enough to do with Linux.  Just use ssh -X to the target
>> computer and issue the command "soffice".  This will cause OOo to open
>> on your local system.  This can be used with almost any app.  You can
>> even do it all in one command with ssh -X <target> soffice.  You can
>> even create icons to do this for you with a single click.  You can
>> also enable X forwarding, so that you don't have to add -X to the
>> command.  In short, with Linux, it's very easy to do.  Can't say the
>> same for Windows.
>> 
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> Have you tried this site for information: http://www.ltsp.org/?

I don't want a thin client, but thanks.



Hal

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