Re: [Sheflug] Wiki links wanted (Dinnington.net + Plone event)

[Alex Hudson <home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 19:31 +0000, Lesley Anne Binks wrote:
> Bob Holland <bobholland@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote :
> > There are some caveats though - disabling screen savers on the server 
> > sessions being an important one we have recently discovered!
> I am not sure I understand the term 'server sessions' here
> so I may be misinterpreting what you are saying. 

I think so :)

Bob's talking about X application servers. In ordinary usage, you're
absolutely right: there isn't a reason to have a desktop on the server,
and many good reasons for not having one.

The system at Dinnington isn't actually X-based per se either; the NX
system is used, which means that everything gets tunnelled over an ssh
session. So in most ways, it's not really that much different to using
ssh to login to a remote bash session or something.

Cheers,

Alex.


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