From edd at debian.org  Sat Mar 22 18:17:11 2014
From: edd at debian.org (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 12:17:11 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Docker versus Vagrant for reproducability - was: The case
 for freezing CRAN
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On 22 March 2014 at 13:10, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
| You might find the program 'xpra' useful. It's like screen, but for x11
| programs.

There are also NXserver/NXclien/FreeNX which keep 'x11 / xdm sessions' and
can resume / reconnect when the client dies.  I find x2go quite useful at work.

Dirk

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[Rd] Docker versus Vagrant for reproducability - was: The case for freezing CRAN
Dirk Eddelbuettel