On Thursday 18 February 2010 15:15:52 Renat Golubchyk wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm looking for a solution to the following problem. > > My relatives live 200 km away. They have a daughter, and I need to help > her out with school homework etc. At the moment we cannot do it on a > regular basis, because doing it over the phone is really difficult and > time consuming. I thought some screen sharing software would solve > this. A video conferencing or a VoIP feature would be a nice bonus, > too. For easy writing I would probably buy graphics tablets since > writing math formulas or drawing isn't particularly fast or easy with > keyboard and mouse. > > So, is there some easy-to-use Linux program? I have Linux desktops on > both ends (Ubuntu and Gentoo), so portability or OS-independence is not > a requirement. > > Do you have any other ideas? For the record, we have a 2 Mbit DSL line > on one end and a 6 Mbit on the other. Those are, of course, downstream > bandwidth rates. > > > Best wishes, > Renat
remote desktop would be ideal except you can't usually share desktops with it. Investigate tightvnc - the data stream can be compressed and it's very efficient. You could use skype for the human-to-human communication. There are of course tons of alternatives but I imagine a girl at school is already very familiar with skype. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
