Equivalent of Citrix or Windows Terminal Server for Linux?

Guy Fraser guy at incentre.net
Thu Nov 4 21:32:49 UTC 2004



Wolfgang Gill wrote:

>On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 11:47:34 -0500, Michael Jezierski - Systec Conveyors wrote
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>>I'm thinking out loud here so that's the smoke you're seeing :-)
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>>I'm migrating a clone dual P4 that's running Win2K server to a newer 
>>IBM box Win2K+3 [yes we have specialized apps that don't run in 
>>Linux unfortunately] and consolidating some old netware and Win2K 
>>servers onto one machine. What does that have to do with Fedora? 
>>Nothing yet....
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>>But what to do with a perfectly good dual P4? I have another project 
>>where I'm looking to place some older P3 and AMD Athlon machines 
>>onto the factory floor and use Linux on those to access limited 
>>applications - CAD viewer (with Cimmetry) and somehow get a viewer 
>>for the financial system (we use Sage's MAS90) on there - see if 
>>that works on Wine. I'm also wondering if just setting up this dual 
>>P4 as a "Citrix" (quotes intentional) server and letting the 
>>workstations view everything off of that.
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>>Mike Jezierski - IT something or other...
>>Systec Conveyors - Indianapolis, IN
>>V: +1.3178909230 x 234 F: +1.3178909232
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>It's not a free solution, I know, but Citrix Presentation Server also runs on
>Unix/Linux. Check this out.
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>http://www.citrix.com/site/PS/products/product.asp?familyID=19&productID=1449
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>Wolf
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Gagg! Choke! ...
Quote from site:
"Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server for UNIX supports Sun 
Microsystems’ Solaris™ SPARC 9, Sun Solaris Intel, Hewlett-Packard’s 
HP-UX®, and IBM’s AIX®, and now includes new features to extend 
performance, usability and security."

Note: No linux!

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Guy Fraser







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