On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Daniel <[email protected]> wrote: > What do people think about No Machine's NX solution? >
NX is great as a proprietary alternative to the straight X11 protocol for remote display of applications. It uses proxies and compression and probably some other techniques I'm not aware of to reduce the communication latency issues that plague X-over-WAN links. But it still communicates at the endpoints via the X11 protocol, so it'll never work for logging into a Windows machine, which is my primary use for VNC/RDP solutions. NoMachine apparently has a new protocol that will work with Windows and Mac servers, but I don't think it's free to use like NX is. RDP is a baked-in solution with modern Windows and Linux desktops, though, and it works well enough for me. While remote X sessions are cool in theory and sometimes in practice, I find I have very little use for them. I find latency in GUI apps really frustrating, so I tend to work via remote file access or command-line tools when I need to interact with a remote Linux machine. I pretty much only use RDP or VNC for communicating with virtual machines on a LAN, and they work just fine in that context. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
