[plug] Cost of Windows

[Brad Campbell]

"Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima" wrote:
> 
> On 16 Nov 2001, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> 
> > The only thing Linux doesn't do so well is thin-client stuff. I've heard
> > about this being used around the place. The sunray stuff doesn't use
> > plain old X, and I've seen it running > 10 terminals on a 10Mb hub with
> > full responsiveness. X kills 10Mb, you'd want a 100Mb switched network
> > and even then it would be slower.
> 
> Or you could use VNC.  Personally I've run VNC (in inetd mode) spawning
> win4lin, had word,excel and corel 9.0 runing over a 56k modem.
> I'm not claiming it was _fast_ but it was useable.

I assume that is much faster than just using win4lin and X across the modem?
Can you give us a quick rundown on how you have it setup?

Sounds like I have some playing to do..

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