[seul-edu] Linux in education report #95 for May 5

[Doug Loss <drloss@suscom.net>]

It's here:

<http://www.seul.org/edu/report95.html>

Malcolm Smith reminded us of XASS, and what it's intended to do.  As he 
puts it:

If you have multiple servers, these can be used to host graphical, X11 
applications that are displayed on a large number of clients. XASS means 
that the client will request an application to be run on any of the 
servers, without being tied to a specific one. Loadbalancing code should 
(theoretically) ensure much more efficient resource utilisation, as a 
server that is fast to respond and doing relatively little will be used 
in preference to one that takes a long time to respond or is busy.

We can see where this could be very useful in a scholastic environment.

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