[plug] Thin client fun.

[Andrew Barbara]

Hi,
for the thin client stuff tr Tarantella (www.tarantella.com)


Andrew

On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Shayne O'Neill wrote:

> 
> 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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