Brent Verner wrote: >[1] Please, please, please someone tell me how to make X perform > as well as RDP so I can stop admitting that Microsoft actually > has something better than us... > > Well you simply won't get that type of performance out of X, because it's designed in a totally different manner. It sends bitmaps and raw mouse movement information across the connection. If you need a remote access solution, and don't mind considering a commercial product, have a look at Sun's recently-acquired Tarantella product. It probably won't meet the needs of the original poster, but I have had extensive experience with it lately, and come away generally impressed. It's quite capable as a remote-access solution, and runs on your Linux of choice. Well, to be fair, it's only officially supported and workable on a few choice Linuxes, as opposed to your Linux of choice. :) Specifically RedHat and Suse, and a couple of other platforms.
It can connect to a number of back ends / interface to a number of systems, including VNC, RDesktop, X, etc by being an application server on a reasonably fast network with the service, and then translate any of those outputs into it's own proprietary format and shove it down a single SSL session to a java-based web applet running inside a web browser. Very reasonably fast and responsive remote connections, to anything from a terminal app, up to a full blown remote copy of Mozilla, or even an entire desktop session through RDP, VNC, or other methods. Best of luck, Aaron S. Joyner -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
