On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 @ 5:58am (-0000), beaker wrote:

b> I`m thinking of trying to set up my Sparc II (running NetBSD-1.5.2) as a
b> thin-client to run X apps off a faster i386 machine (also running
b> NetBSD-1.5.2). Is this something that can reasonably be done ? Do I need

...yep.  I do the opposite, the Sun hardwre seemingly faster and more
reliable than the i386 hardware.

b> to be running X11 or would XFree86 work? Pardon my stupid questions - I
b> got a ways to go....

*) netbsd/sparc runs XSun, from X11R6

*) 8bpp support is only available at the moment

*) Avoid tunneling your remote X11 sessions over ssh (ssh -x) to speed
things up.

-lava

b>
b> Cheers,
b> Beaker