“One of the greatest features of “X windows” is its ability
to work seamlessly over a network. This allows users remote access
to a system with virtually no loss of functionality. Users are
able to share resources on the host machine at the same time as if
they were sitting in front of the system.”
“The are many ways of using X and we won’t cover them all in
this article, but we will try to walk you through the most basic,
and commonly used configurations….”
“In this Walkthrough, we will login to a remote system and
monitor its cpu usage by displaying “xload” on our local
desktop.”