Subject: RE: X-Windows client
From: George A. Dowding (dowdingg@mazzy.math.uaa.alaska.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 04 2002 - 18:34:16 AKDT
Help yourself. I am pretty sure I stole it myself.
stephen king writes:
>
> Youse Guys is awesome. This is the third week in a row that you've had =
> a discussion about a topic I was covering the very next week in my Linux =
> Essentials class. And George, I think I'm gonna steal your way of =
> 'splaining it. That's OK, yes? :-)
>
> Stephen
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: George A. Dowding [mailto:dowdingg@mazzy.math.uaa.alaska.edu]
> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 10:47 AM
> To: Mike Barsalou
> Cc: 'Christopher E. Brown'; 'aklug@aklug.org'
> Subject: RE: X-Windows client
>
>
>
> Actually in X terminology what you want is a server. If you run xterm
> on your linux box and it is displayed on your Windows box, then the
> xterm is the client and the X display system is the server. It sounds
> backwards. Think of it as a server in the generic sence. X makes
> diverse hardware look the same to programs written with an X based
> toolkit by providing services to those applications.
>
> Mike Barsalou writes:
> >=20
> > I actually did mean client....I have a Linux box I want to use as an
> > X-server...but didn't want to change all my Windows boxes to =
> Linux....yet.
> >=20
> > This would allow me to say....show off OpenOffice. Using an X =
> Windows
> > client would be fairly impressive and folks that do have windows =
> programs
> > that are required can still use them.
> >=20
> > Then as we look at upgrading to newer equipment because of XP or =
> whatever
> > the newest Microsoft product is...I can talk about how we wouldn't =
> have to
> > except for those folks who absolutely required windows on their =
> desktop. =20
> >=20
> > Additionally, we could design a server that has VMWare GSX to serve =
> up those
> > few windows boxen that are needed. I know others in the Anchorage =
> Community
> > are already doing this.
> >=20
> > So the goal here is to figure out the least intrusive way to start
> > introducing Linux into a production environment.
> >=20
> > I had an interesting discussion with someone at the Expo on this very
> > topic...this seems like a good transitional path.
> >=20
> > Mike
> >=20
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Christopher E. Brown [mailto:cbrown@woods.net]
> > Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 8:24 AM
> > To: Mike Barsalou
> > Cc: 'aklug@aklug.org'
> > Subject: Re: X-Windows client
> >=20
> >=20
> > On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Mike Barsalou wrote:
> >=20
> > > Anyone know of an Open Source X-Windows client that works on =
> windows?
> >=20
> >=20
> > You mean an X display server right? :)
> >=20
> > And ya, cygwin added an X display server months back, supposed to be
> > very usefull if you are stuck with one of those windows things.
> >=20
> >=20
> >=20
> > --=20
> > I route, therefore you are.
> >=20
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> >=20
>
> --=20
> Thanks,
> George
>
> dowdingg@math.uaa.alaska.edu=20
> http://www.math.uaa.alaska.edu/~dowdingg
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