Equivalent of Citrix or Windows Terminal Server for Linux?

Aly Dharshi aly.dharshi at telus.net
Thu Nov 4 21:44:10 UTC 2004


You may find that there is success with the nomachine.com style FreeNX server or 
if you have the $$$ ESX server from VMWare, if its for a local workstation and 
its just for yourself then you can try VMWare Workstation Edition or something 
like that.

Cheers,

	Aly.

Guy Fraser wrote:
> 
> 
> Wolfgang Gill wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 11:47:34 -0500, Michael Jezierski - Systec 
>> Conveyors wrote
>>  
>>
>>> I'm thinking out loud here so that's the smoke you're seeing :-)
>>>
>>> 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....
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Mike Jezierski - IT something or other...
>>> Systec Conveyors - Indianapolis, IN
>>> V: +1.3178909230 x 234 F: +1.3178909232
>>>   
>>
>>
>> It's not a free solution, I know, but Citrix Presentation Server also 
>> runs on
>> Unix/Linux. Check this out.
>>
>> http://www.citrix.com/site/PS/products/product.asp?familyID=19&productID=1449 
>>
>>
>> Wolf
>> -- 
>> Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org)
>>
>>  
>>
> 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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Aly Dharshi
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