Newbie Question

Adam Agnew agnew at cs.umd.edu
Tue Apr 8 21:21:01 CEST 2003


Yeah, its uhm.. well, it could use some bug fixing. But its close. More
importantly, it has a much smaller footprint than X11 and we've had
trouble with X11 on linuxbios in the past. easier to just use
framebuffers.


On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Gregg C Levine wrote:

> Hello again from Gregg C Levine
> Adam, have you used the DirectVNC arrangement in your work? And how
> well does it work?
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: linuxbios-admin at clustermatic.org [mailto:linuxbios-
> > admin at clustermatic.org] On Behalf Of Adam Agnew
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 1:38 PM
> > To: Ronald G. Minnich
> > Cc: mike hjorleifsson; linuxbios at clustermatic.org
> > Subject: Re: Newbie Question
> >
> > In the interest of being really fast, and saving some binary size to
> boot,
> > i just want to point out DirectVNC
> > http://www.adam-lilienthal.de/directvnc/
> >
> > On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, mike hjorleifsson wrote:
> > >
> > > > Could linuxbios be used to boot a "thin client" so that load
> times and
> > > > bios issues are reduced ?
> > >
> > > yes, indeed. Ollie Lho had linuxbios booting an sis 630 that
> immediately
> > > went into microwindows and then started up VNC -- in a few
> seconds. He
> > > demo'd this at ALS 2000.
> > >
> > > We are following on this work to build thin clients, with Plan 9
> thin
> > > clients as one possibility, although X11 will be first.
> > >
> > > ron
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