SSH, X forwarding, and an aging Sun workstation

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Date: 05/22/05

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    As of late I've been very interested in using my, now quite dated,
    SparcStation 5 running Debian Linux. While the memory installed is
    quite adequate, (224MB) the processor is lacking (~90mhz). If I SSH
    over to my much more powerful workstation with an AMD Athlon using X
    forwarding and forward over all of the common programs I use, Firefox,
    Gaim, Abiword, and the like, given my network throughput, would that be
    significantly faster than running them on the SparcStation? My theory
    stems from my guess that my AMD processor based workstation could
    process information, send it out over the network, and the SparcStation
    could process that information faster than it could process each
    individual task on its own. Is that a fair guess? Should I install
    these programs locally? Thanks for the input.

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