Re: terminal servers

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On 12 Nov 2001, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> At ALS several of us talked to guys doing terminal server stuff
> (http://www.ltsp.org). They pointed out:
> 
>  a) it's a big deal to be able to do terminal servers, because
>     this is what makes Linux a cheap desktop; cf. KDE in Largo, 
>     Florida
>  b) GNOME is relatively easy to fix for this environment
>  c) this could make a big difference in adoption
> 

A bunch of this stuff also applies to magic boxes sometimes called
sunrays, which are somewhat "thinner" clients - the X server runs on the
server and the client gets "digested" information. So getting it fixed is
a big deal for "us" aswell.

Did they try sound support? 8-)

>
> Havoc
> 

	Sander

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