From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 26 09:51:00 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 301E516A4CE for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 09:51:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B690743D1D for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 09:50:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1AlAsx-0003pX-O0 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 17:50:55 +0000 Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i0QHopVi093569 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 17:50:55 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.12.10/8.12.6/Submit) id i0QHopvc093568 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 17:50:51 GMT Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 17:50:51 +0000 From: Jonathon McKitrick To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040126175050.GA93431@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *1AlAsx-0003pX-O0*RtuwDFi.G1w* Subject: CPU or network bound? (Thin clients) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 17:51:00 -0000 I decided to take one of the suggestions here for what to do with my old laptop. I'm going to set it up with ssh X forwarding and connect to my much faster desktop machine. My wife wants a couple of apps I will have to install Wine for on the desktop. If I were to use the laptop as a thin client connecting to the desktop running Wine+applications, would that probably be better than installing Wine on my laptop? The laptop is 266MHz verus 1.8GHz on the desktop. NOTE: Please CC me, as I am not currently subscribed. Thanks. jm -- My other computer is your windows box.