[Gllug] Light weight GUI for Linux

[Alain Williams]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 01:58:08PM +0530, Hakuna Matata wrote:
> Thanks John,
> 
> sorry i missed some details.
> 
> I am running VMware ESXi (free version), and the development machine is a
> VM.  User would have a FreeNX client to this regular desktop and will login
> to the Server machine for the development.
> 
> we are in process to shift the development environment from windows to Linux
> completely.  so as a developer on windows os they are comfortable with GUI.
> For remote access to the server i am giving them FreeNX.
> 
> Any help/suggestion would be really appreciate to setup the enviroment as
> per the best practice, as already said that we are shifting from windows to
> linux and hence do not know the best practice as such.

You may confuse them with multiple desktops on different machines.
Prob best to give each user their own desktop and access shared files via NFS.
This will let them do most things.

However: if you are to become truely competent with Linux you need to get to
know the command line at some point - so ssh to do the rest.

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