[plug] Thin client fun.

[Shayne O'Neill]

Hey folks :)

Having finally brutalised^H^H^H^H^Hwrangled the old filesystem off
the 4gig p133 onto a spankin new beast of a machine , I've been playin
round with VNC thin clients from some of the crazy old mac's around the
student guild.

So far verry nice. I can get a gnome desktop (kde seems to get bizare on
multi-user issues due to that retarded sound server it uses) and open
office on about 5 desktops with pretty smooth user response. It even works
ooookay over a 56k modem assuming most visual fruit is turned off (Busybox
is spectacular over vnc/56k).

Does anyone know if work has been done on delivering X over the
citrix-like protocols that the NT termserver stuff uses. VNC is still a
little bit ineficient for my liking and X on old macs requires either a
really awfull X client or an expensive one (there is a great one that is
really responsive and does rootless X for that desktop integration
smoke&mirrors scenario.)

I'd reeealy like to one-a-these-days find a way of getting groupware onto
mac os9 boxes without invoking the dreaded exchange or retarded web
interfaces, and thin client + evolution MIGHT be the ticket.

Also , anyone played round with any of that kroupware mumbojumbo.

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Shayne O'Neill. Indymedia. Fun.
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