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04-25-2008

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Which Linux dist?

I'm working from what I believe is a server based implementation of Unix and Linux. I access terminals and a Red Hat desktop through Sun Global Desktop from a windows PC.

Recently I have been doing much more complicated activities (than usual). I needed to use cmake, make and gcc (version 4.0.3 or higher). However, I only have access to make. Due to not having administrative rights, I have manage to unpack and install cmake in my home directory and get this to work. However, I realised that my gcc version was lower than 4.0.3. I started the process of installing that too, but it got out of hand with it's size and need for different folders for installation. My home directory is only 200MBs.

I'm now thinking that is would be better to use a spare PC to install another version of Linux, install all the libs and do all the compilation there. So my questions would be:

1. Is this the right approach?
2. What version of Linux should I install?
3. Will the compiled code from the spare PC be compatible when I bring it back?

Note: I only need to do this once as a proof of concept then other professionals can get envolved and sort the whole thing out.

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NAME

       spice-vdagent - Spice guest agent X11 session agent

SYNOPSIS

       spice-vdagent [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

       The  spice  guest  agent  for Linux consists of 2 parts, a system wide daemon spice-vdagentd and a X11 session agent spice-vdagent of which
       there is one per X11 session.
       spice-vdagent gets automatically started in desktop environments which honor /etc/xdg/autostart, and under gdm.

FEATURES

       The spice guest agent adds the following features to spice Linux guests:

       Client mouse mode (no need to grab mouse by client, no mouse lag)

       Automatic adjustment of the X11 session's number of virtual monitors, and their resolution, to the number of client windows and their reso-
       lution

       Support of copy and paste (text and images) between the active X11 session and the client, this supports both the primary selection and the
       clipboard

       Support for transfering files from the client to the agent

OPTIONS

       -h     Print a short description of all command line options

       -d     Log debug messages

       -s port
	      Set virtio serial port (default: /dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0)

       -x     Don't daemonize

       -f dir|xdg-desktop|xdg-download
	      Set directory where to save files send from the client, this can be either an arbitrary dir or one of the  special  values  of  xdg-
	      desktop or xdg-download to select the default xdg Desktop resp. xdg Download directory. If no value is specified the default is xdg-
	      desktop when running under a Desktop Environment which has icons on the desktop and xdg-download under other Desktop Environments

       -o 0|1 Disable/enable opening the file save directory with xdg-open (showing the directory in the file manager) when a file  transfer  from
	      the  client  completes.  If  no  value is specified the default is 0 when running under a Desktop Environment which has icons on the
	      desktop and 1 under other Desktop Environments

SEE ALSO

       spice-vdagentd(1)

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