[tech] New Clubroom Machine: Sidderrog

James Andrewartha trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Tue Aug 4 19:53:38 WST 2009


On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, James French wrote:

> At present X works but not much other than xdm is installed. As this
> box doesn't have a great deal of processor or memory, we probably want
> to think about whether or not we want to actually install desktop
> environments on it or have it connect via XDMCP to mersau.

Currently iceweasel has a bus error on startup - 
http://bugs.debian.org/535092 and it's not that nice to use with GNOME in 
general. So XDMCP or LTSP/LDM is the way to go IMHO.

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