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You can still use X to run a local GUI hooked up to a remote machine, and 15 years ago that was pure voodoo magic.
by fergie 9y ago
You can still use X to run a local GUI hooked up to a remote machine, and 15 years ago that was pure voodoo magic.
- jandrese 9y agoEven today that's not exactly a common feature. Usually you need to start a full desktop (RDP, VNC, etc...) to do anything similar. I still use X display forwarding regularly. Often for something like sending a Firefox window back so I can look at a page on a test network without needing a direct route to it.
- tatersolid 9y agoRDP has supported running single apps remotely for a decade. Windows Server 2008 had this feature.
- stordoff 9y agoThat still felt like magic every time I did at university. Popping up a local UI on my Windows machine for something running on the computer lab's Linux machines was good stuff.