[Rule-list] graphical browser redux

[hairylarry]

Hi,

A skinny X terminal would be great for rule if we can find one that 
runs well on 16 and 32 Meg machines. The likely candidates from 
the Red Hat rpms are WindowMaker and icewm (or something like 
that). WindowMaker is a gnu project and delivers a NextStep 
interface. ice?? is one of the smaller window managers. They both 
have configurator tools.

Does anyone have any experience with these or other thin clients?
Should we include vnc? For many environments installing rule as a 
thin client on old hardware and then running apps from an app server 
on one new machine could deliver good performance. Telnet, of 
course. ssh? Then for graphic clients, vnc and an X terminal if we can 
find one.

Other options for a graphical browser are browsers that use GTK+ 
and browsers that write to the linux framebuffer. I know of no rpms for 
browsers like these.

I would like to support Martin in the use of rpms. I think any package 
installed with rule and on the rule menu, so to speak, needs to be a 
red hat rpm for support reasons. Red Hat can only support packages 
in their distribution and this support is extremely important for newbie 
sysadmins.

I do think we can include a listing of non supported programs that 
someone has run successfully under rule. Especially if such a 
program is as important as a graphical browser and there is no Red 
Hat supported alternative. If we find such a beast we should make an 
rpm and encourage Red Hat to include it. Then it could go on the rule 
menu.

Anyone with other thoughts on thin clients and thin browsers please 
post them. I will continue to research this area.

Thanks,

Hairy Larry