* Ragnar Wisl�ff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050127 16:50]: > I've just had my first session with FreeNX in an LTSP environment today. > First > impressions are mixed. The compression is impressive, for flash movies more > than 100x. But for interactive sessions the latency renders the page almost > useless. The colour depth is less, some icons are off and text is misplaced > sometimes. General responsitivity is less than with a clean X session. There > are bound to be tradeoffs, of course. > > From what I understand, the protocol used is diffed pngs, which explain why > things look a bit strange. > > The load on the server when showing graphics intensive apps like flash is > about the same with and without nx. In other apps it's higher. > > The setup was a Sarge based server with LTSP 4.1, packages for NX client > built > in LBE, and a Sarge package for freenx server side as shown on the Ubuntu web > site. It was a breeze to make work, but a few rough edges during the login > process. > > Does it use less bandwidth? Definitely. > Is it useful? Perhaps. Not definitely.
Ralf is using NX very often, perhaps he will demonstrate something while the developer meeting ;-) Regards/Viele Gruesse! Kurt -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID 0xE263 FCD4 http://www.skolelinux.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
