On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 20:37:53 -0500, harry eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > > To make this as painless as possible for the windows users, and to show > > that Linux/gEDA/PCB are not toys I'm planing on setting up a server that > > can run gEDA/PCB using TightVNC over the network. Has anyone ever done > > something like this before with (Tight)VNC? I was able to demo to the > boss > > using his Internet Explorer under Windows to run PCB over the network > using > > the server built into TightVNC. > > I use tightVNC to my headless linux box for pcb. It works well, but not > perfect.
Along those lines... If you're reconnecting to an existing session (i.e. set up the VNC server from your PC, then reconnect to that session on the boss's PC) , TightVNC provides very snappy initial redraw, in stark contrast to Windows Terminal Server-type solutions (RDP allows you to resize the desktop to fit your screen, which confuddles most Windows apps). This is a good selling point if people start to make fun of your demo based on past TS/RDP experiences. I haven't used TightVNC for PCB editing, but it played well with gschem. That was with an unnecessarily fast Windows PC, though. YMMV. A relative newcomer to the field of remote desktop display is FreeNX, which <disclaimer>I have very little firsthand experience with</disclaimer>. OSNews article on NX: http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=8139 However, someone thought it was worthwhile enough to cram the NX installer into the latest Knoppix (3.7). Which leads us back to one year ago... http://www.geda.seul.org/mailinglist/geda-user13/threads.html#00030 For Bob's situation, a remastered Knoppix disk may provide a better, more complete Open Source EDA demonstration environment than a remote VNC session could. It depends on how fast your computers are, and how you set things up, I guess. O'Reilly's "Knoppix Hacks" has some good info on remastering Knoppix, if anyone is itching to use their CD writer. They also mention Damn Small Linux, which would fit on a smallish USB Flash Drive. -- - Charles Lepple