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Renat Golubchyk writes: |
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> My relatives live 200 km away. They have a daughter, and I need to help |
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> her out with school homework etc. At the moment we cannot do it on a |
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> regular basis, because doing it over the phone is really difficult and |
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> time consuming. I thought some screen sharing software would solve |
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> this. A video conferencing or a VoIP feature would be a nice bonus, |
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> too. For easy writing I would probably buy graphics tablets since |
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> writing math formulas or drawing isn't particularly fast or easy with |
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> keyboard and mouse. |
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> So, is there some easy-to-use Linux program? I have Linux desktops on |
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> both ends (Ubuntu and Gentoo), so portability or OS-independence is not |
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> a requirement. |
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> Do you have any other ideas? For the record, we have a 2 Mbit DSL line |
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> on one end and a 6 Mbit on the other. Those are, of course, downstream |
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> bandwidth rates. |
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You could use Skype to replace your phone communication, if you don't mind |
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its spookiness (I do). It also does video conferencing. If plain audio is |
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enough, I'd use TeamSpeak. |
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Some jabber client for text conversations would be fine. Also works for |
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formulas, if you know some LaTeX... |
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And then VNC (epecially TightVNC) to share your drawings on the tablet. |
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For ultimate performance, you could install NX, which makes X forwarding |
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amazingly fast. One party connects to the remote NX server and opens a KDE |
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3.5 session, which will work nearly as fast if it were opened locally. And |
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the other connects via VNC to that KDE session, which is also very fast |
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then because it runs locally, not over DSL. I do not know if other window |
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managers than KDE 3.5 have the VNC sharing feature, I have not found it in |
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KDE4. |
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You might need some port forwarding if you both are NATed behind a router. |
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Wonko |