Comparing VNC to NX?

VNC:
- VNC is dumb protocol that does not care about the underlying X
protocol in any way
- because it is so simple, VNC can run on Linux/Windows/any OS
- VNC is the most compatible - everything that worked with the plain X
will work under VNC
- free

NX:
- NX is an enhancement of X so it works tightly with X -> there will
never be any NX server for Windows (can't be)
- much better compression ratio, where work via VNC is impossible you
can do via NX well
- theoretically you could also use HW acceleration (OpenGL/AIGLX &
compiz fancy stuff) - something you can never do with VNC
- much more complicated so some apps might now work correctly with it.
- graphics rendering is done on the client side -> bit less server HW
demanding
- not free (well there is the freenx project but I have never tried that)

Ondrej

SZABO Zsolt wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Ondrej Valousek wrote:
>
>   
>> That's what I am saying - my wrapper script solves this and many other
>> problems I had.
>>     
>
> Oh, I misunderstood... now, I see. :-)
>
> Have you also got some info page about the server (CPUs, RAM, swap, etc.), 
> the thin clients, the number of users of nxclient, and the typically used 
> applications in a session, or the critical things concerning the 
> previous list?
>
> Btw. has VNC benefit over nxclient? What? What is it for or not for 
> comparing to VNC?
>
> TIA,
> --
> Zsolt
> PS: if you give me some good starting points to find answer for these 
> questions, it does as well, for me... (because most of them not specially 
> ltsp related)
>
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