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Being picky, Unix is a trademark and Linux is Unix clone or Unix-alike. Specifically, "Linux Is Not UniX."

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Yup, same here... and self hosted, one off purchase of licenses.

The remote control built into Avast's Cloud Care platform is not too bad these days. Again not totally free - but near enough since it costs nothing over the basic AV subscription.

RDP is good sometimes, but there are some applications for where its not much use - like logging into a display computer running customer facing video etc where you don't want it it hide the local display or leave it sat at a windows login screen on exit.

Ah!, consoles, cold server rooms that fill with inert gas in a fire, I remember them now.

Windows NT was designed that way from the ground up, too. It was hobbled afterwards.

Having said that I rarely run any GUI/Windowing systems on *nix. Boot/System problem diagnosis is via a log file.

AIUI a lot of the Linux systems are now designed to be installed using automatic provisioning scripts, so you set up ssh in the provisioning script, presumably with SSH key files. It's been a while since I did one and it tends to go in one ear and out the other.

Yeah, BSD isn't Unix either, but it was always called Unix back in the day. Why not just call Linux Unix. Like we call a vacuum cleaner a hoover.

I'm not sure if I have used a kosher Unix for years?

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That makes me wonder if I should persevere with the Google Chrome add-on. I have taken note of all the other suggestions and will look at them asap.Thanks to all.

Today I spent a long time using AnyDesk with this friend. W7 at my end, iOS 11(?) at his. It seemed to work well enough, but his Mac seemed to get slower and slower. Then he wanted to install something which involved an almost 2GB download. The download started at about 5.30 and at about 6.20 only a few MB had come down. I then suggested we disconnect AnyDesk in case that was cauing the slowness. At 8.15, the emailed to say the machine had downloaded about 400MB. Then, a few minutes later he emailed to say there was a line through the url and it said Cancelled. He restarted the download, but then reported more than one download showing. He has cancelled back down to just one and he is now leaving it overnight. It still seems very slow.

Neither he nor I know what we are doing with Macs, but he seems to still want to move from PC to Mac. He has FTTP, so downloads are usually fast, and his Mac did seem to have slowed to a crawl.

I wonder if the Remote Desktop software caused the slowdown?

I think it actually is.Remember back in the day therre was berkely unix and system V unix.

And a dozen different brandings of both - SUNOS, IRIX. etc etc.

but it was always called Unix back in the

I am not sure a kosher unix ever existed. Maybe on a PDP-11...

It's SSH on the LivCDs which appears to be hobbled. It's quite a fiddle to get it enabled.

When I worked for a large UK manufacturer, SCO Unix was in use ...