[Discuss] SVN server - What hardware do I need?

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 04/21/2013 08:09 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote:
>> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org [mailto:discuss-
>> bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org] On Behalf Of Tom Metro
>>
>> VNC? I've done plenty of remote coding via SSH, but not VNC. What's the
>> underlying circumstances that are motivating that choice?
> In my case:  Users want an IDE.  They also want to be able to suspend / resume their remote session, and simply continue after they get home or whatever.  They want to be able to reboot and sleep their laptops, and travel, without losing context.
>
> Yes, if you can offload the build process to their laptop, that's great.  But there are a lot of reasons people might not want to do that.
VNC allows for this. The login is done locally on the server by the VNC 
server process. The VNC client simply connects. So, you can start a 
build while in the office logged in via your laptop. You can close the 
VNC client (or the PC sleep will cause it to close). At home, start up 
your VPN, start your VNC client (We use UltraVNC) and the build will 
still be running or will have finished. This is another advantage of VNC 
over Putty/Exceed (not excel - I mistyped).

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