[TriLUG] Looking for Remote access to Unix boxes via Wintel

[Chris Hedemark]

On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 11:13, Jeremy P wrote:
> I've used Xwin32 and it's very good, but still far from cheap.
> $249 for one license!  Only $8950 for a 50-pack!
> 
> That's a heck of a lot of dough to access a free operating system...

I agree.

Jon, if your situation permits, it may be cheaper to just purchase a
bunch of cheap PC's with monitors and set them up as terminals to your
Linux server.

At the client site I'm at now, I have a Pentium 4 box running Red Hat
Linux 7.2 and permits direct XDMCP queries (will adjust this to use a
chooser soon since we're going to have multiple terminal servers).  

On the desktop, I've been using these $80 low-end Pentium II boxes from
secondwindpcs.com (though if you want something even cheaper than that,
I can provide first generation pentium terminals made by IBM in some
quantity).  Load it up with a stripped down Red Hat 6.2, with X11 loaded
and configured.  When it reboots, go back in and change the last line of
/etc/inittab to have X query your bigger box via XDMCP.  I also go one
more step and point to a font server in the XFree86 configuration but
that is optional.

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