Newbie Question

Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon at worldnet.att.net
Tue Apr 8 20:18:01 CEST 2003


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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