hi you mention X servers for Acorn's, what about Linux? and could you boot an Acorn machine (if you had a few, like 200) as thin clients from a Intel-based survey? should be able to i'm sure. seen RiscBSD, any others ? BETT was interesting, couple more Linux appliances around, also Fen Systems, a 'small' start-up offering 'middleweight' clients (not thin). I'm running a sweepstake for the number of academic providers offering:- 1. Linux servers- 2. Linux-based appliances 3. Linux clients 4. Abingdon-based companies with their own Linux distributions :-) sealed bids to me by 31st January, winner gets a copy of Red Hat 8 Malcolm ------------------------------- Dr Malcolm Herbert Head of Technology R&D, Becta 02476 847126 Mob: 07801 612438 -------------------------------
-----Original Message----- From: suse-linux-uk-schools-return-1228-malc=ngfl.gov.uk@ns2.SuSE.com [mailto:suse-linux-uk-schools-return-1228-malc=ngfl.gov.uk@ns2.SuSE.com] On Behalf Of Alan Davies Sent: 10 January 2001 12:04 To: suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com Subject: [suse-linux-uk-schools] X servers for Acorn
It seems to have gone very quiet on this list...
I'm not sure how I missed the announcement, but Leo White has produced an EXCELLENT Xserver for Acorn which is free - I don't know if he intends it to stay free. It certainly seems better than the MIX server for PC stations.
I can't see any reason to use VNC when this is available.
It was a bit of a hassle make SUSE accept broadcasts for xdm (mainly because I didn't know about it) - and further problems when kdm didn't appear to work (and still doesn't) gdm works locally but not to Xserver clients - again I don't know why.
-- Alan Davies Head of Computing Birkenhead School