stinkingpig Wrote: > Robin Bowes wrote: > > lnxguru wrote: > > > >> If you want to practice your Linux skills you could use telnet/ssh > for > >> command line or consider using a remote X server. Cygwin and > >> Hummingbird(commercial) have X servers for Windows. The power and > RAM > >> you'll need for this will depend on what else you're going to do > with > >> this box but you won't need any monitor/mouse/keyboard attached. > >> > > > > I would add: don't bother with a remote X server - use VNC. > > > > R. > > > > meh. Each has its place. VNC's performance is horrible, but it is > easier > than X. It's probably a point of interest that the most popular page on > > my website is this one: > http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/remote-x-cygwin-howto > > -- > Jack at Monkeynoodle dot Org: It's a Scientific Venture... > Riding the Emergency Third Rail Power Trip Since 1996
You might want to give TightVNC a try, it sports some performance improvements over the original AT&T version. Also, your howto seems to improperly characterize VNC. Perhaps I'm mis-reading but you seem to imply that the VNC viewer and server trade packets continuously regardless of activity. That isn't the case, they only trade packets when there are events to share (such as mouse movements or screen updates). An idle VNC session uses no bandwidth. Additionally, you indicate that a VNC context is limited in size and pixel depth to the specs of the video card attached to the server hosting it. This is not the case, VNC contexts can be of arbitrary dimesions and quantity regardless of any video hardware that may or may not be attached to the hosting computer (given enough memory, of course). One possible exception would be if a user was using VNC to share screen 0, but that's not a common use and certainly not appropriate for the scenario you describe in your howto. -- rudholm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rudholm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2980 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22506 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
