13 Sep
2017
13 Sep
'17
8:27 a.m.
On 09/12/2017 07:42 PM, Arthur Krewat wrote:
Try installing Oracle products on UNIX/Linux without
X. Better yet, try
doing it on a remote machine on the other side of the world.
Ouch! Doing it half way across the US was bad enough. I'd hate to
experience half way around the world.
While KVMs like a Dell DRAC or Sun LOM, and
virtualization consoles help
a lot, it's nice to be able to "ssh -X" to a remote machine and run that
installer back to my local VNC server.
(Don't forget the -Y to forward authentication. ;-)
I completely agree.
Also, I believe that graphic console has a completely different security
exposure compared to allowing someone to use X remotely. (Via ssh
forwarding or more traditionally across the network.)
If I had a decent X windows implementation locally,
I'd use that instead
of VNC.
I actually ended up going the other way. X11 is nice when it works.
However, I found that I spent a LOT of time waiting on X11 to chat back
and forth. Comparatively VNC is (IMHO) a lot better at lower bandwidth
and / or higher latency.
Also, running Xvnc (server) on the remote system allows you to
(dis)connect the VNC client at will. Same advantages as screen / tmux,
but for X11.
X had it's issues. But it's still alive and
well - maybe because of Java ;)
I personally look fondly on the days when you could set the DISPLAY
variable and launch your GUI application.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die