[PLUG] A net admin question
Scott Chapman
scott_list at mischko.com
Sat Apr 12 17:07:02 UTC 2003
On Saturday 12 April 2003 16:46, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> > Do you want to the application to execute and display on each
> > workstation, or is it within bounds for it just to display?
>
> Paul,
>
> If two of us are working simultaneously -- on different data files,
> obviously -- then it needs to execute twice, no?
Linux will typically share code in memory so it's run twice but not using as
much memory as if it was actually run twice. Did that make sense?!
You can telnet/ssh to a machine on the LAN and run the app there with the
display being on the PC in front of you. So, it's running on the Server and
being displayed on the Client.
You should also check out the Linux Terminal Server Project (www.ltsp.org).
Your post brings up one of the primary disadvantages of Peer-to-Peer
networking - maintaining seperate copies all over the place. Client-Server
computing gives the huge advantage of central administration (typically in
one place, not many). Thin clients are the epitome of this model where the
client doesn't even need its own hard drive.
Scott
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