RE: gEDA-user: gEDA/PCB desktop icons and remote access?

["Peter Brett" <peter.brett@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey there,

I'm usually a lurker but I just had to contribute on this one.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-geda-user@xxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-geda-user@xxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Bob Paddock
> Sent: 19 December 2004 22:56
> To: geda-user@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: gEDA-user: gEDA/PCB desktop icons and remote access?
>
> To make this as painless as possible for the windows users, 
> and to show that Linux/gEDA/PCB are not toys I'm planing on 
> setting up a server that can run gEDA/PCB using TightVNC over 
> the network.  Has anyone ever done something like this before 
> with (Tight)VNC?  I was able to demo to the boss using his 
> Internet Explorer under Windows to run PCB over the network using 
> the server built into TightVNC.

In our department we do a *lot* of IC design.  We have several Blade servers running Red Hat Fedora Core and Cadence's IC design tools.

Standard practise is for engineers to run a Windows workstation, and use vanilla VNC to connect to the Linux boxes.

Even using vanilla VNC, using the remote computer is barely distinguishable in performance to using the Cadence tools on the local machine.

I've successfully built and used gschem on the setup.

If you need any more details, let me know. :-)

HTH,

Peter Brett

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System Display Group
Sharp Laboratories of Europe
http://www.sle.sharp.co.uk/research/sop/