Hi Jared,
I have found that XFce has one of the best results over GNOME for desktop use and speed. HTH.
Cheers,
Aly.
Jared B. Reimer wrote:
A couple of bugs have been found and fixed in this area since the beta (one that springs to mind is that the connection could get clamped into a high-compression mode when a less-compressed higher-throughput mode would have been appropriate) but nothing fundamental has changed between then and now. If you happened to run into one of those bugs then the FCS experience might be better but it probably won't be wildly better.
I actually installed the 3.0 FCS today on a Linux box. Maybe it's my imagination, but it does FEEL a little faster. Still not quite what I'd hoped, though, which is a truly pretty pleasant end user experience at moderate (sub-1Mbps) consumer broadband speeds. I was artificially choking back bandwidth using the DHCP attribute (NewTBW I think it was) and did not actually try this over a DSL connection. Is this a realistic way to accomplish a simulation of what it might be like over a WAN, ignoring latency? Or is that DHCP attribute not an accurate mechanism for regulating bandwidth usage?
On an unrelated note: I've heard rumors that Sun has developed a SunRay client in Java. Have you heard anything about this, by chance?
What desktop, what applications and what kinds of traffic were you running over the DSL? Did you capture any packet loss or latency numbers?
Is there an optimal desktop OS for the SunRay? I'd imagined that they would all behave more or less similarly. I am using RedHat + gnome, and the key application in my case is web browsing via Firefox. Any ideas, tips, tricks, etc. would be greatly appreciated.
Do you work for Sun on this project, by chance? You seem to be extremely knowledgeable about the product. Either way, could we chat offline briefly? Perhaps you can shed some light on some questions I've had for a while.
Many thanks,
-- Jared
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