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
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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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