From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 14 8: 2: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from thor.theseus.com (south.theseus.com [63.74.60.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEC6237B999 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 08:00:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thebs@theseus.com) Received: from spanky.theseus.com (spanky.theseus.com [192.168.0.51]) by thor.theseus.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA17688; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 10:57:50 -0400 From: Bryan -TheBS- Smith Reply-To: thebs@theseus.com, b.j.smith@ieee.org Organization: Theseus Logic To: Joel Bjork , Otter Subject: RE: VNC (was: RE: Data Switch kills Mouse(PS/2) Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 10:53:02 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Thomas_Chen@asus.com.tw, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00081410575008.16803@spanky.theseus.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-Servers for Win32 -- WAS: VNC (was: RE: Data Switch kills Mouse(PS/2) On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Joel Bjork wrote: > I'm using VNC over a 10Mbit network and it works great at 1152x864x16. I'm > also using it to connect to the same box at work, about 6 hops away and it > works great there as well, I've even been able to enjoy a few games of xjewel. VNC allows my company to use only a few Linux and Solaris systems (with 1-6 processors each) without having to put one on everyone's desk. Since 90% of our EDA tools are UNIX-based, we save a lot of time and money. > I haven't tried running an X-server on windows but it is my understanding > that VNC sends a lot less data. The best thing is that it keeps the sessions > when you disconnect so you can continue at the same place as you left off. The CygWin project is getting damn close to this capability. They have both XFree 3.3.6 and 4.0.1 running on Windows NT, and have recently added a barrage of X-Servers for framebuffer, DirectX, GDI and GDI via VNC server. Damn would it be tasty to get multiple VNC servers running on Windows, would allow us to start booting Linux more since all we use Windows for is Office. Better yet is the fact that more and more EDA tools are being ported from Solaris to Linux. Maybe FreeBSD will get some recognition some day and we'll see commercial EDA tools for it as well. -- TheBS -- Bryan "TheBS" Smith CONTACT INFO *********************************************************** Chat: thebs413 @ AOL/MSN/Yahoo (see http://Everybuddy.com) Email: mailto:thebs@theseus.com,b.j.smith@ieee.org Legal: http://www.SmithConcepts.com/legal.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message