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Re: X server for WinNT



There is also an Exceed from Hummingbird. I'm not sure if it available
for free.

Alex Shnitman wrote:
> 
> Shachar Tal writes:
> 
>  > > > VNC is slow. very slow.
>  > >
>  > > Slow??? Comparing to what exactly??? I use it instead of Xceed and
>  > > Xcursion, and I can testify it runs faster on my local net.
>  >
>  > Slow compared to X, or better, low bandwidth X. Last time I used VNC, it
>  > was using roughly 600KBps to view an NT desktop on my linux X server. X
>  > takes much, much less bandwidth. LBX is fairly fast on a modem connection.
>  >
>  > As for it being an X server, last time I used it, it was sending my NT
>  > desktop pixel by pixel, essentially, to my X server.
> 
> VNC may be slow, but at least it *works*. The only free X server for
> NT that I'm aware of is Mi/X, and after working with it a bit I can
> say that it is not useful. It is marginally usable with its own window
> manager (twm), and when you try a bit more usable window manager from
> your Linux machine it crashes and/or displays incorrectly. Since Eran
> needs X through his own LAN, which is probably not very saturated
> anyway, VNC should be quite OK.
> 
> --
> Alex Shnitman
> alexsh@hectic.net, alexsh@linux.org.il
> http://alexsh.hectic.net

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