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So, i heard it’s possible (of course it’s possible lol) and i wanted to test. I have a dedicated server running Fedora, but without any GUI, so first i had to install some graphic interfaces (you can’t Remote Desktop when all you got is a shiny prompt), so that’s how you do it on fedora:

first:

from some random site on the web:

“Since the OLPC images are quite stripped due to the 512MB requirement, you may wish to install additional software. Before installing either a Gnome or KDE environment, you must resolve a conflict between Sugar’s artwork package, and the normal Fedora artwork package.”

so you have to install this before installing gnome:

yum install redhat-artwork

then you install the gnome by:

yum install nautilus gedit gdm gnome-panel gnome-session

it’s a long ass process that might lead you into slow mirrors and lots of pain, but at nothing more than this :P — please note that you only need to install this if you don’t have gnome or any other GUI installed.

So, now you need a program to view the desktop, since i did a search on google and found some results for it, basically you can either use the old and known RealVNC or those ticky programs like XManager3.

The problem with RealVNC is that theorically you would need to run it when you are already inside the GUI, however how you do that if you can’t get into the GUI remotelly? oh bite me, i forgot to meantion that the server i’m dealing with is remote and i don’t have direct console access to it ? :P

Soooo, i got this crappy XManager 3 program installed on my windows box, and using the XStart i connected thorought SSH to my server and loaded GNOME on it!……. so i got waiting for like 5 minutes until the whole thing gets loaded, since it’s pretty slow, recalls me of 56k times.

So far i’m not installing RealVNC to see if it works faster, just wanted to try this remote desktop on linux, it’s slow but it works.

i still prefeer the old prompt, but if you got be into a shiny interface, maybe just to open that little torrent program (that only works with GUI) to download lots of p0rn, you might need to install a GUI.

;)