The xserver in cygwin works just fine on all the systems I have tested, I
have several linux boxen at home all headless, and I use Cygwin and XDMP to
select which box I what to connect to and manage, seems as fast as using a
local screen etc. Webmin is also a good tool, as it also has a POSTGRESQL
managemnt module in it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan Wieck" <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>
To: "Arjen van der Meijden" <acm@tweakers.net>
Cc: <nolan@celery.tssi.com>; "'Advocacy PostgreSQL'"
<pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org>; "'PostgreSQL-general'"
<pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 3:22 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-advocacy] Documentation quality WAS:
interesting
> Arjen van der Meijden wrote:
> >> Jan Wieck wrote:
> >> If you work on Unix systems remotely on a regular base, you
> >> should have
> >> a Unix system as a workstation too. That way you can use ssh(1) to
> >> forward your X11 connections through a secure channel.
> >>
> >> A "second" PC can be implemented as a memory+disk upgrade
> >> together with
> >> a VMware license.
> >
> > There also ssh clients which support X11 forwarding on a windows machine
> > and since there are X11 servers for windows...
> > You don't necessarily need a unix workstation. Apart from that, a
> > (tight)vnc server might be less bandwidth consuming.
>
> There are all kinds of stuff that works. VPN's, VNC's, you name it. I
> just have the best experience with having a Unix workstation when
> administering/working on remote Unix systems.
>
> Plus, banning your workstation(s) into virtual machines has another, not
> so obvious advantage. A backup of the workstation not only get's reduce
> to copying the files that make up the virtual disk ... you can restore
> it onto different hardware without confusing the device manager or going
> through config hassles. Ever restored a Windows backup onto a
> replacement notebook? Don't risk that "fun".
>
> Right now I have 1 Linux and 2 Win2K "systems" running inside of VMware
> on my notebook. With FreeBSD and Minix standing by. They are a happy
> little virtual network.
>
> But I think we're going a bit off topic here ...
>
>
> Jan
>
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