[plug] Thin client fun.

[Shayne O'Neill]

Ah... not opensource, not an option. Plus I'm pretty sure tarantella is
owned by the filthy caldera pigs. Trust me, at this conjuncture in history
I'd rather deal with microsoft than pirate creeps like caldera(sco). That
doesnt say alot. :)

(And If I'm rong about tarantella , I thouroughly retract the above)

Shayne.

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"Must not Sleep! Must warn others!"
-Aesop.
Shayne O'Neill. Indymedia. Fun.
http://www.perthimc.asn.au

On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Andrew Barbara wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> > "Must not Sleep! Must warn others!"
> > -Aesop.
> > Shayne O'Neill. Indymedia. Fun.
> > http://www.perthimc.asn.au
> >
> >
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