Joe Baker wrote: > Faraz Khan wrote the following on 07/16/2007 02:10 AM: > >> I wonder how well SSH compression fares? as far as I can tell it only >> works with ssh protocol ver 1 so I wonder if the NETWORK_COMPRESSION >> variable in ldm actually does anything. I heard somewhere that it comes >> close to NX like on this page: >> >> http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/HOWTO:_Install_MueKow_on_Ubuntu >> >> It actually claims SSH compression is better than NX? Has anybody tested >> this? >> >> If that is actually true then high powered thin clients are a >> requirement for both NX and LTSP/SSH then I would rather go with >> LTSP/SSH as thats a far cleaner solution. >> >> >> > > NX has several levels of compression. You might a nxclient > configuration of zero disk space and 128mb of RAM usage coupled with no > encryption and set for LAN speeds. I wouldn't look for much of a > performance boost on the LAN, but consider what happens when the user > turns off the thin client. Or moves to another location and wants to > access his Firefox session from another desktop. FreeNX can be > detatched from and rejoined later from another location. Session > persistence, I like to think of it as. > > Thanks for sharing the results of your work. I hope to travel in some > of your footsteps running NX technologies on the thinclients. > > I've used FreeNX fairly extensively on the local network, and I do find it to be quicker than TightVNC. It's not a tremendous speed increase, but graphics are generally a little bit smoother.
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