Fedora + LTSP + iMac (Was: Re: Setting up a file server for a diskless X-Terminal)
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Tue Sep 18 03:12:31 UTC 2007
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 22:01 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Chris Mohler wrote:
> >> actually, I'm sort of stuck doing almost that because I can't seem to
> >> get older iMac's to work as thin clients on ltsp 4.2 and one of the guys
> >> that helped with the Mac client utils says I need to look at what they
> >> employed on k12ltsp so I'm downloading the ltsp-6-32-bit disc images
> >> atm.
> >
> > Can you issue
> >
> > startx --query IPADDRESS :1
> >
> > from the iMac? I assume you have already installed the X11 from apple
> > and can issue a "startx" (or "startx :1"?) from the X11 terminal and
> > get the grey screen with the X.
> >
> > I had this set up some time ago - an old iMac connecting to FC2 ala LTSP 4
>
> If the Mac is running 10.3/10.4 OSX, grab the free NX client at
> http://www.nomachine.com/download-client-macosx.php and run it against
> freenx on fedora. Unless the reason you want to run as a thin client is
> that it won't boot anymore... There are lots of advantages compared to
> a normal remote X session.
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yeah but you wanna know what bites?
there's no Linux-ppc nx client
Craig
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