[Cumbria] My Word!!!

Ken hough cumbria at mailman.lug.org.uk
Sat Jan 11 21:01:03 2003


Schwuk wrote:

>
> Ken Hough wrote:
> >  From what I've read, I suspect that we would need more than 20 minutes
> > to cover adequately.
>
> Actually, it should be enough for a brief overview - remote apps 'just
> work' if you are using ssh. Remote sessions (i.e. full desktops are a
> little trickier).
>
> > There's nothing like getting something actually working. Perhaps we
> > could most usefully achieve this by doing some initial setting up of a
> > couple of PCs, before the meeting.  These steps could be discussed in
> > this list. I could do some of this on one of my boxes.
>
> I think Mike was intending a live demo anyway - I am bring two laptops
> (1 dual boot, 1 xp w/cygwin) for that purpose. If you would like to be
> shown how to get it running on your boxes, then by all means bring them...
>
> > Someone has already got Netscape (or was it Mozilla) running remotely.
> > How about going for a lightweight app for demo purposes, the browser
> > and say one other heavyweight app?
>
> It is me, and it is mozilla, although I have run various other apps as
> well (including OpenOffice).
> --
> Schwuk
>

Sounds good to me!

Ken