Re: [LUG] linux in schools - did some probing

["Mark Evans" <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Steve Marvell wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:05:16PM +0000, kevin bailey wrote:
> >
> > >   i am also checking out cygwin so existing windows PC's can be used as
> > >   thin clients,
> >
> > That seems rather a waste of the Windows licensing fee.
>
> I'd have thought that VNC was a more natural cross platform
> approach to terminal servers. Most of the time buying PC's is a

It depends exactly what you want to do. VNC is effectivly a way
to display an entire desktop on a remote machine. With an
X server you can do "X -query <server>" and have x/g/kdm 
manage an independent session an arbitraty number of workstations.

What would be useful is an X version of netop...

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