[ale] VNC viewers for linux

[Jonathan Rickman]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On 
> Behalf Of Greg Freemyer
> Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2004 11:25 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] VNC viewers for linux
> 
> Possibly a dumb question, but can't you just start up another 
> X-server on your Linux box and have it connect to another 
> linux server.

That might very well be the best solution on a LAN, but ICA, RDP, and VNC
work well across slow links, where X is barely even functional over anything
less than a T1, and it is quite painful even at that speed. RDP and VNC are
quite pleasant to use at 56k with RDP having a significant edge, and ICA can
run over as little as 19,200bps using a cell phone as a connection device. I
suspect that Red Hat and Suse are working dilligently behind the scenes to
bring VNC up to this level, as it would have a significant impact on the
acceptance of their enterprise product lines. It is really just a matter of
time, but in the interim, I refuse to struggle with inferior technology in a
production environment. My use of VNC consists of managing one Windows
desktop connected over a VPN, and that's only because we had no intention of
buying pcAnywhere just for one machine since we had no need for file
transfers, remote device mapping, and all the other features present with
other solutions.

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Jonathan