[ale] VNC viewers for linux

Dow Hurst Dow.Hurst at mindspring.com
Sat Sep 18 15:12:31 EDT 2004


Jonathon,
Have you ever worked with lbxproxy?  It was something I was very 
interested in but then we got DSL so the priority dropped.  It condenses 
the X protocol so you get more command info passed in smaller 
bandwidth.  I never set it up so have no idea how to make it work.
Dow


Jonathan Rickman wrote:

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>>-----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
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>>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.
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>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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