Did some testing over the past few days with Freenx and Ltsp5. My purpose was to boot the thin client from tftp (just like ltsp does) so I used an existing LTSP setup.
Tried using a script called startnx which is a replacement for startx/ldm but that didnt work out too well so I just did it Manually. On the thin client shell i did: 1. Start raw X (just type X) 2. Start nxclient so that it connects to X. 3. I had a freenx server running on feisty to accept connects. Worked perfectly fine - however I really didnt feel ANY difference of speed compared to LTSP 5 ssh X tunnelling. It was as slow and laggy even over LAN. Basically XDMCP speed beat FreeNX hands down - though FREENX did take up much less bandwidth. Isnt the NX protocol supposed to give you near native speed through caching? I noticed no such thing on my end. Ive even tested Nomachine's commercial client and server but NOTHING can match the speed of a native raw X connection (through XDMCP). Its laggy and screen repainting is slow. Just reporting my results and hoping to obtain feedback. Thin clients are PIII-1.0G old Compaqs with 256mb Ram. Am guessing the low end CPU might be killing the speed in the case of NX just like it does with LTSP5 ssh tunneling. -- Faraz R Khan CEO, Emergen Consulting Pvt Ltd +92.21.111.111.320 x200 www.emergen.biz ----------------------------- NOTICE: If received in error, please destroy and notify sender. Sender does not intend to waive confidentiality or privilege. Use of this email is prohibited when received in error. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
