[wplug] Stuff at Pitt

[Jonathan S. Billings]

Check out the man page for ssh.

ssh -X hostname netscape


On Thursday, January 31, 2002, at 10:05  PM, David Gerard Matthews Jr. 
wrote:

> Bryon Gill wrote:
>> But now I run linux and by ssh'ing into Pitt, I can forward the X
>> connection and a netscape browser appears on my desktop.
>
> How do you do this?  Sounds cool.
>
> BTW, this evening I made my first visit to Pitt Linux lab.  The boxen
> seem to be pretty well-equipped desktop Linux workstations, with RH and
> Gnome.  I don't know how many people will be using them that aren't
> already *nix fans, but could possibly win some people over.  The only
> thing that might scare a newbie off is that after logging in, you are
> greeted with a console prompt.  I'd prefer to go straight into X, but
> that's just me.
> -dgm
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Lots of
>> people's first interactions with *nix seem to be through a telnet/mail
>> situation like mine, and they associate unix with Microsoft Telnet.  
>> Ick.
>>
>> Just some thoughts.  Sorry to clog your boxen.
>> ____________________________
>> Bryon Gill (aka abe ferlman)
>>
>> On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, kf3cr wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Chris wrote:
>>>
>>>> I worked in the labs for 1 1/2 years.  Pitt has an agreement with MS 
>>>> to give
>>>> away the software.  Pitt "pays" for the CDs and can burn as many as 
>>>> they
>>>> want.  As for the Linux machines in the Masonic temple, they are RH 
>>>> machines
>>>> with Flat Screens.  They are pretty nice but I think that they are 
>>>> lacking
>>>> some software.  I feel that they should have put StarOffice on it.  
>>>> The only
>>>> word process that I saw was gedit.  It's definitly better then the 
>>>> Sun
>>>> machines that they have setup, well at least for the average 
>>>> students.  I
>>>> never really thought about seeing if Pitt will hand out linux.  I 
>>>> could talk
>>>> to one of the Head people in CSSD and see what he says.  Oh yeah, 
>>>> You can
>>>> get them anytime, but you can only get one copy.
>>>>
>>>       You can get StarOffice and a bunch of other crazy applications 
>>> on
>>> the sun machines in the Beh lab.  Type "setup -list" to get a list of
>>> them.  I cant seem to figure out how to get staroffice to run at the
>>> moment, but I was using it last semester on the sun machines.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Chris
>>>>
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>>> Michael J Kowalchuck
>>> kf3cr        73
>>> mjkst77 at pitt.edu
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   Jonathan Billings
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