[AG-TECH] Display machine on Linux

[Christoph Willing]

>
>Chris
>Could you share some of your experiences with linux as a display machine?
>I plan to run whole Access Grid on Debian (at the moment win and rh)
>Thanks 
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>Grzesiek Sedek
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Some documentation on this is at http://www.ap-accessgrid.org/linux/
but lacks some detail. I'll work on when I have time.

Briefly, install the required apps on the appropriate machines i.e. rat
on the audio machine, vic on the video machine, vic vnc & tkMOO-lite
on the display machine. The machines are synchronized (apps change
rooms when when selected by web browser in a virtual venue) by a
small daemon called "vvd" running on each machine along with an
appropriate mimetype setting in the browser (click on the vvd link
at the above page for download & details).

Nothing in our implementation is distribution dependent. The vvd daemon,
which is the only really different thing about our implementation, is a
TCL/TK application, so should run on just about anything. We run Slackware
whereas another site in Australia with our system is using Red Hat; I'm
sure Debian would be OK too.

chris


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