On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 16:43 -0500, Dave K wrote: > On 11/16/06, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > > ... Another is to run individually started > > 'vncserver' sessions which have no connection to a real display, > > permit reconnection from vncviewers and run until you stop them. > > We use this at $WORK to provide a stable X desktop for developers with > Windows laptops. No matter how much their laptop comes and goes their > desktop stays put. Works well for shifting back and forth from work > to home too, either coming through the corporate VPN or using SSH > tunnelling via PuTTY and an ssh server. This is also nice when you > can afford UPS protection for the VNC Server machine, but not for > client desktops. > > In our case the actual compilations and such are done on still > different systems (various OS's and Platforms), so not much "real" > work happens on the Linux box doing the VNC servers. This lets us have > many more people sharing a system than you would first think possible > (as many as 8 on a 1.something Ghz P4 with 1.5G RAM, SCSI disk). As > with many things these days, RAM is more important than CPU, faster > disk (e.g. SCSI) would be next most important. > > One tip: ensure no one runs xscreensaver in their virtual sessions! I > copied the binary to xscreensaver.real and copied /bin/true to > screensaver to keep all the configuration scripts happy. freenx / nx might be even better for you, especially for remote connections. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20061127/618189dc/attachment-0005.sig>