[mdlug] Remotely Use Linux

[Aaron Kulkis]

Ingles, Raymond wrote:
>> From: Kristoffer Marshall
> 
>> It's basically an easy to set up VNC, with a lot of options for 
>> compression and whatnot. Just read the documentation and everything 
>> should be fine. It's pretty darn fast over the Internet. I just wish 
>> that it wouldn't create a new X server session. I'd like to use the 
>> current running session, but I haven't seen anything like 
>> that for linux.
> 
>  There's also "ssh -X". When you connect, ssh will set up X forwarding
> and encrypt the traffic. You can fire up commands (e.g. "xterm &") and
> they'll run on the remote machine and show up on the local one.
> 
>  Even works for Windows, given an X server running on Windows, like xming
> or Cygwin's X server.


And HIGHLY recommended for logins going over unsecured
networks, by the way.