[mythtv-users] Diskless frontends?

[Jarod Wilson]

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On Wednesday 09 June 2004 06:57, Tim Litwiller wrote:
> We are using this is a private school with 16 terminals and they all
> have local (at the terminal sound).
>
> It just doesn't work in Kde.  But it works fine in gnome and icewm.

Oh really? Cool! Good to know... I'm a KDE guy, but I may have to try that 
out... Any idea of whether it works with xfce4? And do you know if that works 
only in an all-Linux environment, or does it also work to a remote X session 
w/Cygwin or Apple's X11?


> Jarod C. Wilson wrote:
> > On Jun 8, 2004, at 8:22 PM, Tim Litwiller wrote:
> >> If you want an easy to setup ltsp server based on fedora core 1, get
> >> k12ltsp - then start configuring from there to make a diskless myth
> >> client.
> >> http://k12ltsp.org/
> >
> > That still doesn't fix the sound issue for remote X sessions, while
> > nomachine might... But yes, that's a good starting point. Red Hat's
> > own redhat-config-netboot (or system-config-netboot on Fedora) also
> > works quite well.
> >
> >> Jarod Wilson wrote:
> >>> On Tuesday 08 June 2004 09:44, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> >>>> On Tuesday 08 June 2004 11:59, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> >>>>> For Myth to
> >>>>> properly function (i.e., if you want sound), you have to run
> >>>>> everything client-side.
> >>>>
> >>>> Ever check this out?
> >>>>
> >>>> http://www.nomachine.com/
> >>>>
> >>>> I've always wanted to delve into this, but haven't had the time.
> >>>> Aside
> >>>> from an interesting & efficient method of proxying X protocol, they
> >>>> also support network-transparent sound of some sort.  Their white
> >>>> paper(s) are interesting reads.
> >>>
> >>> Its been a while, but I did look at that some time back. I'd
> >>> forgotten about it. Forwarding sound does seem to be about the only
> >>> thing missing for running remote X Myth sessions, which could also
> >>> theoretically work with Cygwin's X client and Mac OS X's X11...

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