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Subject: Re: Setting up a central X server ...
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On Sat, 26 Apr 2003, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> basically, I have a rackmount server here that has 4Gig of RAM and dual
> CPU ... I'd like to setup X on it such that my staff's workstations run
> their apps off of that machine, instead of their desktops ...

Try VNC.  It works very well for that sort of setup. It is in the ports
tree and the website is http://www.realvnc.com/.

Carl.