> No, I was wondering what kind of performance he was seeing because of X's > bandwidth limitations. > > What kind of open source projects are out there for doing remote > desktops in > a low bandwidth setting? I only know of VNC > (http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/)...
VNC is the only one of which I am aware. Is VNC even meant to be used in a low-bandwidth environment like a 28.8Kbps dial-up? I thought it just copied the screen basically. That has to eat up a lot of bandwidth unless I am missing something obvious (yes, I am including compression, if it has it). Regards, Dustin --- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Information Systems Consultant http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear In the beginning the Universe was created. This has been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams > > John Hebert > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dustin Puryear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 9:59 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [brluglist] XFree86 on M$ Win2K > > > Do you mean you want to run the X Windows System over the > Internet? Just so > you know, you shouldn't expect very good performance. Despite what you may > have read, X really only gives good performance over a LAN or a high > bandwidth Internet connection. Well, at least for any type of complicated > application. Applications such as xterm or gvim will run nicely though. > > This is somewhere that UNIX could pickup some tips from the Windows world. > For low-bandwith (or better) remote desktops Microsoft's RDP and Citrix's > ICA tend to leave X in the dust. > > Regards, Dustin > > --- > Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Information Systems Consultant > http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear > In the beginning the Universe was created. > This has been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Behalf Of John Hebert > > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 10:22 AM > > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > > Subject: RE: [brluglist] XFree86 on M$ Win2K > > > > > > Very cool! > > > > I'd like to try setting something up like this to get to my home machine > > from work. What kind of performance do you get? What's your bandwidth > > between the two machines? > > > > Also, have you tried compiling dpkg under Cygwin? I started the > steps last > > night at work, but ran out of time. > > > > John Hebert > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Adam J. Melancon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 9:25 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [brluglist] XFree86 on M$ Win2K > > > > > > I didn't realize that you were interested in this John. At the meeting > > monday I had my laptop with me and it had cygwin/Xfree86 up and > > running on > > it. > > > > Check it out, I'm using cygwin on win98 to ssh to a server and using X11 > > forwarding to run programs locally. Here I'm monitoring the system using > > gtop. > > http://www.vermilion.lib.la.us/cygwin98.jpg > > > > and here are some gimp shots > > http://www.vermilion.lib.la.us/gimp1.jpg > > http://www.vermilion.lib.la.us/gimp2.jpg > > > > Adam J. Melancon > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > ================================================ > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > your subscription information. > ================================================ > ================================================ > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > your subscription information. > ================================================ > ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================ ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================ ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
