Remote desktop support like in knoppix?

[Thomas Beckett]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 16:39:52 +0100, Vincent Trouilliez
<vincent.trouilliez at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> > Hmm.. that would probably do it, but I much prefer the interface that
> > knoppix gives you for this, as it's much friendlier and easier for
> > newbies like My mother :-P
> >
> > In theory its just an app.. so if I can find out what it is, then I
> > can install and run it can't I?
> 
> Well yes I guess so. But I have never used the Knoppix thing (not the
> Gnome tools either...), so I can't really compare one with the other, I
> was just making a suggestion to help.
> At least, you have got the funstionnality ready in Warty, so the most
> important is there. Now, if you are critical and prefer to use some
> other program, then it's a  Gnome or at least Gtk2 program, I assume it
> should work very well in Ubuntu ?
> I can't help more than that I am afraid, hopefully some more
> knowledgeable people will put their hands up to help you out...
> 
> I have not tried the "remote desktop" feature in Gnome, as I don't have
> broadband (stuck with 64Kbps for the past 2 years ! :-/ ), but my ISP
> just told me that no later than Tuesday (Feb. 1st), they will speed that
> up to 1024Kbps for the same price ! :o) So once I have 1024K, I will
> spend hours playing with that remote desktop gnome program, and also try
> voice over IP, and listen to only radios, and download lots of bog
> programs from synpatic, and big this and big that, and try sharing files
> over NFS with a friend who is a few miles away and using Linux too.
> Ohhhh, Broadband is so marvelous, it should be free !!! :o)))
> 
> Vince

You should move to Tiwan - I hear 10mbps is the norm in the cities...

I just got cable installed in my new flat - 1mbps and loving it! 

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