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If your IT department at work refuses to give you a modern solution I think that's their problem, not yours. They should just know, X11 forwarding was already o
by QUrprUd1nCeicw 4y ago
If your IT department at work refuses to give you a modern solution I think that's their problem, not yours. They should just know, X11 forwarding was already obsolete decades ago. They're just signing up for trouble and misery with that.
I doubt that X11 is going to disappear for good. It will still always be around for running the odd old X client or for historical curiosity. Just like how you can still emulate the original Macintosh (released the same year as the original version of X!).
- Amezarak 4y agoWe don’t have an IT department per se but hundreds of offline sites consisting of thousands of servers each which cannot be changed in this manner and for which neither I nor any person I have ever met has the option of complaining that they’re using “obsolete” solutions that happen to work fine. The more likely end result is that there will simply be no GUI available on most servers when more recent OS releases are deployed and we will shrug and life will be worse. So I guess you can say it’s someone else’s problem but it sure feels like my problem.
- QUrprUd1nCeicw 4y agoI can't understand the situation here. Why wouldn't a more recent OS release have a VNC server available? And why is a web server being used to run firefox? Shouldn't that be run on the client? Why are you even installing a GUI on a Unix server? It seems to me like something is very backwards about your setup.