On Tue, 4 May 1999, G. Crimp wrote:
> I'm also wondering about mixing architechtures. This guy wants to > sit in front of a quiet diskless box at his desk (not entirely solved yet) Why not just keep the existing Sun box and just use it as X-terminal. You can either keep Solaris or install Linux on it. > that runs all apps across the net from another box (the Qube, maybe) sitting > in another room. You'd probably want something more powerful here. > If you have a ix86 diskless box on the desk, is it going > to be able to run apps served from a RISC port of Linux ? What you mean "served" ? You can run applications on RISC and display them on your local worstation. Any architecture. > Could one put x86 > binaries onto the RISC harddrive and have them served to the diskless box ? Sure. Put them in a separate directory , export it via NFS. Sergey.
