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Is Open Source the new cell phone?Is Open Source the new cell phone?Posted Nov 16, 2004 22:58 UTC (Tue) by XERC (guest, #14626)In reply to: Is Open Source the new cell phone? by philips Parent article: Is Open Source the new cell phone?
Most of our workstations
are Windows only,
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Is Open Source the new cell phone? Posted Nov 17, 2004 9:58 UTC (Wed) by Krakow (guest, #26070) [Link] Have you tried FreeNX yet? Once you use it you can kiss goodbye to VNC. Too slow.
Is Open Source the new cell phone? Posted Nov 17, 2004 10:03 UTC (Wed) by druiloor (guest, #26069) [Link] Some time ago, i overheard a phone call to our department (ICT) allong the lines of:
Yes, we do use this "Linux thing" you talk about. As a matter of fact you have had a Linux powered machine on your desk for the past two years or so. However your desktop actually runs on a Citrix farm (which is MS-Windows) and most any button you press there fires off some kind of "frontend" (to: database, terminal-server, X clienthost, or whatever) again running Unix. Well, we configured it this way - so users wouldn't notice. Yeah if your kid wants to check this out, have him hit Crtl-Alt-F1/-F7. Cheers.
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