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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 10:22:16 -0400
From: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>
Organization: Unorganized
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To: Arjen van der Meijden <acm@tweakers.net>
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Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Documentation quality WAS: interesting
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Arjen van der Meijden wrote:
>> Jan Wieck wrote:
>> If you work on Unix systems remotely on a regular base, you 
>> should have 
>> a Unix system as a workstation too. That way you can use ssh(1) to 
>> forward your X11 connections through a secure channel.
>> 
>> A "second" PC can be implemented as a memory+disk upgrade 
>> together with 
>> a VMware license.
> 
> There also ssh clients which support X11 forwarding on a windows machine
> and since there are X11 servers for windows...
> You don't necessarily need a unix workstation. Apart from that, a
> (tight)vnc server might be less bandwidth consuming.

There are all kinds of stuff that works. VPN's, VNC's, you name it. I 
just have the best experience with having a Unix workstation when 
administering/working on remote Unix systems.

Plus, banning your workstation(s) into virtual machines has another, not 
so obvious advantage. A backup of the workstation not only get's reduce 
to copying the files that make up the virtual disk ... you can restore 
it onto different hardware without confusing the device manager or going 
through config hassles. Ever restored a Windows backup onto a 
replacement notebook? Don't risk that "fun".

Right now I have 1 Linux and 2 Win2K "systems" running inside of VMware 
on my notebook. With FreeBSD and Minix standing by. They are a happy 
little virtual network.

But I think we're going a bit off topic here ...


Jan

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